Molecular cloning and characterization of a 79-kDa iron-repressible outer-membrane protein of Moraxella bovis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-284

  Kakuda, Tsutomu ^a   Oishi, Daiki ^a   Tsubaki, Shiro ^a   Takai, Shinji ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferric uptake regulator; Iron acquisition; Moraxella bovis; Outer membrane protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTOFERRIN; MANGANESE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN COPB; PROTEIN FETA; PROTEIN FRPB; PROTEIN IRPA; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FRPB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; IRON; IRON UPTAKE REGULATION PROTEIN, BACTERIA; IRON-UPTAKE REGULATION PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORAXELLA BOVIS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BOVINAE; INSERTION SEQUENCES; IRPA; MORAXELLA BOVIS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; LACTOFERRIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORAXELLA (MORAXELLA) BOVIS; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 1642360103     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00554-8     Document Type: Article

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