Use of a Molecular Decoy to Segregate Transport from Antigenicity in the FrpB Iron Transporter from Neisseria meningitidis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Saleem, Muhammad ^a   Prince, Stephen M ^a   Rigby, Stephen E J ^a   Imran, Muhammad ^a   Patel, Hema ^b   Chan, Hannah ^b   Sanders, Holly ^b   Maiden, Martin C J ^c   Feavers, Ian M ^b   Derrick, Jeremy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FRPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRON CHELATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84874093218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056746     Document Type: Article

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