Identification and characterization of two temperature-induced surface-associated proteins of Streptococcus suis with high homologies to members of the arginine deiminase system of Streptococcus pyogenes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 6768-6776

  Winterhoff, Nora ^a   Goethe, Ralph ^a   Gruening, Petra ^a   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Kalisz, Henryk ^b   Smith, Hilde E ^c   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^a  

^a Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Tierseuchen   (Germany)

^b Research Center for Biotechnology   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; ARGININE DEIMINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ORNITHINE DECARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN ADIS; PROTEIN OCTS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYDROLASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 0036955884     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.24.6768-6776.2002     Document Type: Article

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