Multifunctional role of choline binding protein G in pneumococcal pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 821-829

  Mann, B ^a   Orihuela, C ^a   Antikainen, J ^b   Gao, G ^a   Sublett, J ^a   Korhonen, T K ^b   Tuomanen, E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CASEIN; CHOLINE BINDING PROTEIN G; DNA; FIBRONECTIN; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOUSE; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHOLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 31844451911     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.821-829.2006     Document Type: Article

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