Identification of a Moraxella catarrhalis outer membrane protein exhibiting both adhesin and lipolytic activities

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4341-4350

  Timpe, Jennifer M ^a   Holm, Melissa M ^a   Vanlerberg, Serena L ^a   Basrur, Venkatesha ^a   Lafontaine, Eric R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL; ADHESIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESTERASE; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HAG; PROTEIN MCAP; PROTEIN USPA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPOLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0043267677     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.8.4341-4350.2003     Document Type: Article

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