Cysteine-free proteins in the immunobiology of arthropod-borne diseases

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mejia, J Santiago ^a   Arthun, Erik N ^a   Titus, Richard G ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; FLICE INHIBITORY PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PERTACTIN; TRYPTOPHAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIGENICITY; ARTHROPOD DISEASE; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BIOINFORMATICS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARRION DISEASE; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PLAGUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOBACTERIA; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCRUB TYPHUS; TULAREMIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SECRETION;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CYSTEINE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77953691213     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/171537     Document Type: Article

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