Cold shock response of the UspA1 outer membrane adhesin of Moraxella catarrhalis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8247-8255

  Heiniger, Nadja ^a   Troller, Rolf ^a   Meier, Patricia Stutzmann ^a   Aebi, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN USPA1; RECA PROTEIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLD; COLD AIR; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONJUNCTIVA; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HAG GENE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHALATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; USPA1 GENE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 28444470159     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.12.8247-8255.2005     Document Type: Article

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