Tpr homologs in Treponema paraluiscuniculi Cuniculi A strain

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6561-6576

  Giacani, Lorenzo ^a,c   Sun, Eileen S ^a,b   Hevner, Karin ^a   Molini, Barbara J ^a   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a   Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STOP CODON; SYPHILIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TPR GENE; TPRK GENE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PARALUISCUNICULI CUNICULI A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYPHILIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 7044274348     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.11.6561-6576.2004     Document Type: Article

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