The OmpA-like protein Loa22 is essential for leptospiral virulence

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 0894-0903

  Ristow, Paula ^a,b   Bourhy, Pascale ^a   McBride, Flávia Weykamp Da Cruz ^c   Figueira, Claudio Pereira ^c   Huerre, Michel ^a   Ave, Patrick ^a   Saint Girons, Isabelle ^a   Ko, Albert I ^c,d   Picardeau, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OMP ALPHA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; OMP-ALPHA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CRICETINAE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GUINEA PIGS; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 34547645283     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030097     Document Type: Article

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