Identification and characterization of a new staphylococcal enterotoxin-related putative toxin encoded by two kinds of plasmids

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6088-6094

  Omoe, Katsuhiko ^a   Hu, Dong Liang ^b   Takahashi Omoe, Hiromi ^c   Nakane, Akio ^b   Shinagawa, Kunihiro ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ENTEROTOXIN LIKE PUTATIVE TOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL TOXIN SER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID PIB485; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SED GENE; SEG GENE; SEJ GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SER GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0141446027     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.10.6088-6094.2003     Document Type: Article

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