The novel leptospiral surface adhesin Lsa20 binds laminin and human plasminogen and is probably expressed during infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4657-4667

  Mendes, Renata Siqueira ^a,b   Von Atzingen, Marina ^a   de Morais, Zenaide Maria ^b   Gonçales, Amane Paldes ^b   Serrano, Solange M T ^a   Asega, Amanda F ^a   Romero, Eliete Caló ^c   Vasconcellos, Silvio Arruda ^b   Nascimento, Ana Lucia Tabet O ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LAMININ; LEPTOSPIRAL SURFACE ADHESIN OF 20 KDA PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEINASE K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LAMININ; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 80855134613     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05583-11     Document Type: Article

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