A novel, anchorless streptococcal surface protein that binds to human immunoglobulins

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 296, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1329-1333

  Kawabata, Shigetada ^a,b   Tamura, Yasuharu ^a   Murakami, Jumpei ^a   Terao, Yutaka ^a,b   Nakagawa, Ichiro ^a   Hamada, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binding; Genome; Immunoglobulin; M protein; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN SIB35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0036387021     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02078-8     Document Type: Article

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