Galactose-specific fimbrial adhesin of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli: A possible aggregative factor

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-179

  Grover, Vandana ^a   Ghosh, Sujata ^a   Chakraborti, Anuradha ^a   Majumdar, Siddhartha ^a   Ganguly, Nirmal Kumar ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BAY REGION BINDING SITE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GALACTOSE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBITS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33847123490     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0366-6     Document Type: Article

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