The characterization of Mycoplasma synoviae EF-Tu protein and proteins involved in hemadherence and their N-terminal amino acid sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-94

  Benčina, Dušan ^a   Narat, Mojca ^a   Dovč, Peter ^a   Drobnič Valič, Magda ^a   Habe, Franc ^a   Kleven, Stanley H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongation factor Tu; Hemadherence protein; Mycoplasma synoviae; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; HEMAGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOPLASMA; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHICKENS; HEMAGGLUTININS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 17444435084     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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