Identification and partial characterization of a novel hemolysin from Leptospira interrogans serovar lai

Gene

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 19-28

  Lee, Seoung Hoon ^a   Kim, Kyung A ^a   Park, Yong Gun ^a   Seong, In Wha ^a   Kim, Min Ja ^a,b   Lee, Yong Ju ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cloning; hap 1; Nucleotide sequence; Pore forming protein; sphH

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0342520863     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00293-6     Document Type: Article

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