Analysis of known bacterial protein vaccine antigens reveals biased physical properties and amino acid composition

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 468-478

  Mayers, Carl ^a   Duffield, Melanie ^a   Rowe, Sonya ^a   Miller, Julie ^a   Lingard, Bryan ^a   Hayward, Sarah ^a   Titball, Richard W ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genome sequence; Vaccine antigens; Vaccine design

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ALPHA TOXIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CATALASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CYTOKINE; CYTOTOXIN; DECORIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FLAGELLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; LISTERIOLYSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PERTACTIN; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; PNEUMOLYSIN; PORIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN; TETANUS TOXIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; UREASE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BORDETELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0142244175     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.319     Document Type: Article

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