Minor pilin subunits are conserved in Vibrio cholerae type IV pili

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-40

  Toma, Claudia ^a   Kuroki, Hiromi ^a   Nakasone, Noboru ^a   Ehara, Masahiko ^b   Iwanaga, Masaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Major pilin; Minor pilin; Type IV pilus; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; HEMAGGLUTININ; ISOPROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0037171246     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(02)00273-0     Document Type: Article

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