Variation in the Neisseria lactamica porin, and its relationship to meningococcal PorB

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1525-1534

  Bennett, Julia S ^a   Callaghan, Martin J ^b   Derrick, Jeremy P ^c   Maiden, Martin C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; PORIN B; BACTERIAL DNA; PORIN PROTEINS, NEISSERIA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHARYNX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHARYNX; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 46249128687     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/015479-0     Document Type: Article

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