exl, an exchangeable genetic island in Neisseria meningitidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1687-1696

  Kahler, C M ^a   Blum, E ^a   Miller, Y K ^a   Ryan, D ^a   Popovic, T ^a   Stephens, D S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLLAGENASE; GENE PRODUCT; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTOFERRIN; PROTEIN COL; PROTEIN EXL; PROTEIN EXL2; PROTEIN EXL3; PROTEIN HEMO; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HUMANS; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0035118838     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.3.1687-1696.2001     Document Type: Article

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