Molecular characterization of the surface layer proteins from Clostridium difficile

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1187-1199

  Calabi, Emanuela ^a   Ward, Steven ^a   Wren, Brendan ^a   Paxton, Thanai ^a   Panico, Maria ^a   Morris, Howard ^a   Dell, Anne ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Fairweather, Neil ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS REACTIONS; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034971793     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02461.x     Document Type: Article

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