Peptide Surface Display and Secretion Using Two LPXTG-Containing Surface Proteins from Lactobacillus fermentum BR11

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5855-5863

  Turner, Mark S ^a   Hafner, Louise M ^a   Walsh, Terry ^a   Giffard, Philip M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; GENES; PROTEINS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

HUMAN CYSTIC FIBROSIS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HISTIDINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL WALL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE LOCUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0142104434     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5855-5863.2003     Document Type: Article

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