Existence and characterization of allelic variants of Sao, a newly identified surface protein from Streptococcus suis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-88

  Feng, Youjun ^a,b   Zheng, Feng ^c   Pan, Xiuzhen ^c   Sun, Wen ^c   Wang, Changjun ^c   Dong, Yaqing ^c   Ju, Ai Ping ^c   Ge, Junchao ^c   Liu, Di ^a   Liu, Cuihua ^a   Yan, Jinghua ^a   Tang, Jiaqi ^c   Gao, George F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Research Institute for Medicine of Nanjing Command   (China)

Author keywords

Allelic variants; Antibody; ELISA; Sao protein; Streptococcus suis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; SURFACE ANTIGEN ONE L; SURFACE ANTIGEN ONE M; SURFACE ANTIGEN ONE S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE; ZOONOSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE;

EID: 34548552812     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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