Purification and partial characterization of a Paracoccidioides brasiliensis protein with capacity to bind to extracellular matrix proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2486-2495

  Gonzalez, Angel ^a   Gómez, Beatriz L ^a,c   Diez, Soraya ^a,c   Hernández, Orville ^a   Restrepo, Angela ^a   Hamilton, Andrew J ^c   Cano, Luz E ^a,b  

^a Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LAMININ; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SCLEROPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; YEAST; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 16244384571     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.4.2486-2495.2005     Document Type: Article

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