Identification of a glycosylated Ehrlichia canis 19-kilodalton major immunoreactive protein with a species-specific serine-rich glycopeptide epitope

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-82

  McBride, Jere W ^a,b   Doyle, C Kuyler ^a   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   Cardenas, Ana Maria ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^a,b   Nethery, Kimberly A ^a   Woods, Michael E ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CYSTEINE; EPITOPE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 19; PERIODATE; POLYPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOST CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MASS; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33845968519     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01494-06     Document Type: Article

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