Swapping of periplasmic domains between Brucella suis VirB8 and a pSB102 VirB8 homologue allows heterologous complementation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4945-4949

  Patey, Gilles ^a   Qi, Zhong ^a   Bourg, Gisele ^a   Baron, Christian ^b   O'Callaghan, David ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRUCELLA SUIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRAJ GENE; VIRB8 GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA SUIS; CELL LINE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PERIPLASM; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33746644159     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00584-06     Document Type: Article

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