Mass spectrometric analysis of Ehrlichia chaffeensis tandem repeat proteins reveals evidence of phosphorylation and absence of glycosylation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Wakeel, Abdul ^a   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   McBride, Jere W ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (3 DIMETHYLAMINOPROPYL) 3 ETHYLCARBODIIMIDE; AMIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN; SERINE; TANDEM REPEAT PROTEIN 32; TANDEM REPEAT PROTEIN 47; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 77949723101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009552     Document Type: Article

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