The LspB Protein Is Involved in the Secretion of the LspA1 and LspA2 Proteins by Haemophilus ducreyi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1874-1884

  Ward, Christine K ^a,b   Mock, Jason R ^a   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN LSPA1; PROTEIN LSPA2; PROTEIN LSPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANCROID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1842536416     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.1874-1884.2004     Document Type: Article

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