Subfamily I Treponema pallidum repeat protein family: Sequence variation and immunity

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 725-737

  Sun, Eileen S ^a   Molini, Barbara J ^b   Barrett, Lynn K ^a   Centurion Lara, Arturo ^b   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a,b   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunity; Tpr; Treponema pallidum; Variation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SYPHILIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYPHILIS, CUTANEOUS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 2942639693     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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