A conserved tetranucleotide repeat is necessary for wild-type expression of the Moraxella catarrhalis UspA2 protein

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7840-7852

  Attia, Ahmed S ^a   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN USPA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITRONECTIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; HALF LIFE TIME; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SERUM; USPA2 GENE; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COMPLEMENT C9; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERUM; VITRONECTIN;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 33751106931     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01204-06     Document Type: Article

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