The Bacillus cereus containing sub-branch most closely related to Bacillus anthracis, have single amino acid substitutions in small acid-soluble proteins, while remaining sub-branches are more variable

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-211

  Callahan, Courtney ^a   Castanha, Elisangela R ^a   Fox, Karen F ^a   Fox, Alvin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Anthrax; Bacillus cereus; Electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry; Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry; Small acid soluble proteins (SASPs)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SMALL ACID SOLUBLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS;

EID: 42649129080     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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