Expression of the Moraxella catarrhalis UspA1 protein undergoes phase variation and is regulated at the transcriptional level

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1540-1551

  Lafontaine, E R ^a   Wagner, N J ^a   Hansen, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN USPA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLY G; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0035110759     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.5.1540-1551.2001     Document Type: Article

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