A newly identified protein of Leptospira interrogans mediates binding to laminin

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1275-1282

  Longhi, Mariana T ^a   Oliveira, Tatiane R ^a   Romero, Eliete C ^b   Gonçales, Amane P ^c   De Morais, Zenaide M ^c   Vasconcellos, Silvio A ^c   Nascimento, Ana L T O ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEXAHISTIDINE; LAMININ; LEPTOSPIRAL SURFACE ADHESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LAMININ; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 70349333680     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.011916-0     Document Type: Article

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