Adhesive activity of the haemophilus cryptic genospecies cha autotransporter is modulated by variation inn tandem peptide repeats

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-339

  Sheets, Amanda J ^a   Geme III, Joseph W St ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; PROTEIN CHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECIES; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS;

EID: 78650911650     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00933-10     Document Type: Article

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