Haem release from haemopexin by HxuA allows Haemophilus influenzae to escape host nutritional immunity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-148

  Fournier, Clémence ^a   Smith, Ann ^b   Delepelaire, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; HEME; HEMOPEXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN HXUA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALORIMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEME; HEMOPEXIN; IMMUNOBLOTTING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 79953038614     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07562.x     Document Type: Article

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