Comparative expression profiling of the Chlamydia trachomatis pmp gene family for clinical and reference strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Nunez, Alexandra ^a,b   Gomes, João P ^a,b   Mead, Sally ^a   Florindo, Carlos ^b   Correia, Helena ^b   Borrego, Maria J ^b   Dean, Deborah ^a,c,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PMPA; PROTEIN PMPB; PROTEIN PMPC; PROTEIN PMPD; PROTEIN PMPE; PROTEIN PMPF; PROTEIN PMPG; PROTEIN PMPH; PROTEIN PMPI; RIBONUCLEASE E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOTYPE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; UPREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 41149101849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000878     Document Type: Article

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