Comparative analyses of the Moraxella catarrhalis type-IV pilus structural subunit PilA

Gene

Volumn 477, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 19-23

  Luke Marshall, Nicole R ^a   Sauberan, Shauna L ^a   Campagnari, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic clades; Pili; Pilin

Indexed keywords

PILIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HUMAN; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; MUCOSA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX DISEASE; PILA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; PILA;

EID: 79953723465     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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