Surface immunolabeling and consensus computational framework to identify candidate rare outer membrane proteins of Treponema pallidum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5178-5194

  Cox, David L ^a   Luthra, Amit ^b   Dunham Ems, Star ^b   Desrosiers, Daniel C ^b   Salazar, Juan C ^c   Caimano, Melissa J ^b   Radolf, Justin D ^b,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GLYCOLIPID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENCAPSULATION; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; RAT; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; RABBITS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 78649914479     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00834-10     Document Type: Article

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