A single Ala139-to-Glu substitution in the Renibacterium salmoninarum virulence-associated protein p57 results in antigenic variation and is associated with enhanced p57 binding to chinook salmon leukocytes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3969-3977

  Wiens, Gregory D ^a   Pascho, Ron ^a   Winton, James R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; DISEASES; GENES; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ANTIGENIC VARIATIONS;

BACTERIA;

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; PROTEIN P57; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM; ACTINOMYCETALES; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITOPE MAPPING; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SALMON; VIRULENCE;

RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPE MAPPING; FISH DISEASES; LEUKOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALMON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035984254     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.8.3969-3977.2002     Document Type: Article

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