Evolution and virulence contributions of the autotransporter proteins yapj and yapk of Yersinia pestis CO92 and their homologs in Y. pseudotuberculosis IP32953

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3693-3705

  Lenz, Jonathan D ^a,c,d   Temple, Brenda R S ^a,b   Miller, Virginia L ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN YAPJ; PROTEIN YAPK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84867615448     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00529-12     Document Type: Article

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