Tandem repeat deletion in the alpha C protein of group B streptococcus is recA independent

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 5037-5045

  Puopolo, K M ^a   Hollingshead, S K ^a   Carey, V J ^a   Madoff, L C ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA C PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; LD 50; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TANDEM REPEAT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPLEEN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0034919223     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.8.5037-5045.2001     Document Type: Article

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