The AsaP1 peptidase of Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. achromogenes is a highly conserved deuterolysin metalloprotease (Family M35) and a major virulence factor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 403-410

  Arnadottir, Helga ^a   Hvanndal, Iris ^a   Andresdottir, Valgerdur ^a   Burr, Sarah E ^b   Frey, Joachim ^b   Gudmundsdottir, Bjarnheidur K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDASE; PEPTIDASE ASAP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PRIMER DNA;

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETHAL DOSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONID FURUNCULOSIS; SUBSPECIES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FISH DISEASE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; VIRULENCE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA SUBSP. ACHROMOGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GADUS MORHUA; MEROPS; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMO SALAR; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FISH DISEASES; GENE LIBRARY; METALLOPROTEASES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLASMIDS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-CRK; SALMO SALAR; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 58149490640     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00847-08     Document Type: Article

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