Characterization of an Extracellular Virulence Factor Made by Group A Streptococcus with Homology to the Listeria monocytogenes Internalin Family of Proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7043-7052

  Reid, Sean D ^a,c   Montgomery, Alison G ^a   Voyich, Jovanka M ^a   DeLeo, Frank R ^a   Lei, Benfang ^a   Ireland, Robin M ^a   Green, Nicole M ^a   Liu, Mengyao ^a   Lukomski, Slawomir ^b,d   Musser, James M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT; M PROTEIN; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SURFACE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 10744223970     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.12.7043-7052.2003     Document Type: Article

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