Effect of mutations in the human immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) hinge on its susceptibility to cleavage by diverse bacterial IgA1 proteases

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1515-1522

  Senior, Bernard W ^a   Woof, Jenny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A2; PROLINE; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; SERINE; THREONINE; IGA SPECIFIC SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASE; IGA-SPECIFIC SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 15544384443     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.3.1515-1522.2005     Document Type: Article

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