Identification of a 19.3-kDa protein in MRHA-positive Edwardsiella tarda: Putative fimbrial major subunit

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-133

  Sakai, Takamitsu ^a   Kanai, Kinya ^a   Osatomi, Kiyoshi ^a   Yoshikoshi, Kazuma ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edwardsiella tarda; Fimbria; Hemagglutination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FETUIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; MANNOSE; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SUCROSE; THIOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; FISH; GENE STRUCTURE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EDWARDSIELLA TARDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMAGGLUTININS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

EID: 0642277746     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00608-6     Document Type: Article

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