The R28 protein of Streptococcus pyogenes is related to several group B streptococcal surface proteins, confers protective immunity and promotes binding to human epithelial cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 208-219

  Stålhammar Carlemalm, Margaretha ^a   Areschoug, Thomas ^a   Larsson, Charlotte ^a   Lindahl, Gunnar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHIMERA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CERVIX UTERI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PERITONITIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0345279861     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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