Outer membrane protein DsrA is the major fibronectin-binding determinant of Haemophilus ducreyi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1608-1616

  Leduc, Isabelle ^a   White, C Dinitra ^a,c   Nepluev, Igor ^a,d   Throm, Robert E ^b,e   Spinola, Stanley M ^b   Elkins, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; LECTIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A2; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN DSRA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN MOMP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIBRONECTIN; VITRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; VITRONECTIN;

EID: 42149143704     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00994-07     Document Type: Article

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