Identification and Molecular Characterization of EatA, An Autotransporter Protein of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1786-1794

  Patel, Seema K ^a   Dotson, Jimmie ^b   Allen, Kenneth P ^a   Fleckenstein, James M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; GLYCYLASPARTYLSERYLGLYCYLSERYLPROLINE; HISTIDINE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN EATA; PROTEIN SEPA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATALYSIS; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE DISRUPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1342281315     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.3.1786-1794.2004     Document Type: Article

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