The cell wall-associated serine protease PrtA: A highly conserved virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-104

  Bethe, Gesina ^a   Nau, Roland ^b   Wellmer, Andreas ^b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^c   Reinert, Ralf Rene ^d   Heinz, Hans Peter ^a   Zysk, Gregor ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convalescent phase serum; Immunogenic surface protein; Subtilase; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; SERINE PROTEASE PRTA; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LYSATE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035960708     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00453-0     Document Type: Article

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