Identification of a new OmpA-like protein in Neisseria gonorrhoeae involved in the binding to human epithelial cells and in vivo colonization

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1391-1403

  Serino, Laura ^a   Nesta, Barbara ^a   Leuzzi, Rosanna ^a   Fontana, Maria Rita ^a   Monaci, Elisabetta ^a   Mocca, Brian T ^b   Cartocci, Elena ^a   Masignani, Vega ^a   Jerse, Ann E ^b   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Pizza, Mariagrazia ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 34249801803     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05745.x     Document Type: Article

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