The major outer membrane protein rOmpB of spotted fever group rickettsiae functions in the rickettsial adherence to and invasion of Vero cells

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 801-809

  Uchiyama, Tsuneo ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Kusuhara, Yoshito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adherence; Invasion; Outer membrane protein; Rickettsia; rOmpB

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ROMPB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT; HOST CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INOCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RICKETTSIA; VERO CELLS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA;

EID: 33646047747     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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