Specific ligand binding attributable to individual epitopes of gonococcal transferrin binding protein A

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 732-740

  Masri, Heather P ^a   Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; LIGAND; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN A; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; IRON TRANSPORT; LIGAND BINDING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; LIGANDS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEPHAROSE; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036153922     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.2.732-740.2002     Document Type: Article

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