Are the PE-PGRS proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis variable surface antigens?

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-19

  Banu, Sayera ^a,b   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Saint Joanis, Brigitte ^a   Philpott, Dana ^a   Prévost, Marie Christine ^a   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; PROTEIN PE PGRS; PROTEIN RV 1983; PROTEIN RV0980C; PROTEIN RV1067C; PROTEIN RV1068C; PROTEIN RV1441C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETICULOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETICULOCYTES; TRANSFECTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036231045     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02813.x     Document Type: Article

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