Characterization of Francisella tularensis outer membrane proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 561-574

  Huntley, Jason F ^a   Conley, Patrick G ^a   Hagman, Kayla E ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SUCROSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CYTOLYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPHEROPLAST FORMATION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33846231766     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01505-06     Document Type: Article

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