Cloning, expression, and characterization of the superantigen streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G from Streptococcus dysgalactiae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1721-1729

  Zhao, Jizi ^a,b,e   Hayashi, Tomohito ^c   Saarinen, Susanna ^d   Papageorgiou, Anastassios C ^d   Kato, Hidehito ^b   Imanishi, Ken'ichi ^b   Kirikae, Teruo ^a   Abe, Ryo ^c   Uchiyama, Takehiko ^b   Miyoshi Akiyama, Tohru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN G; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34147157788     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01183-06     Document Type: Article

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