Comparative secretome analyses of three Bacillus anthracis strains with variant plasmid contents

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3646-3658

  Lamonica, Janine M ^a   Wagner, MaryAnn ^a,c   Eschenbrenner, Michel ^a   Williams, Leanne E ^a   Miller, Tabbi L ^a   Patra, Guy ^a,b   DelVecchio, Vito G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b Vital Probes Inc   (United States)

^c MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ENOLASE; ISOCITRATE LYASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN A; PROTEOME; TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC TRANSPORTER;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LETHAL GENE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEOME; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 19744363507     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3646-3658.2005     Document Type: Article

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