Expression of two different antiphagocytic M proteins by Streptococcus pyogenes of the OF+ lineage

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 860-869

  Thern, Anette ^a   Wästfelt, Maria ^a   Lindahl, Gunnar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SKIN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARRIER PROTEINS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0344919418     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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