Leptospiral outer membrane protein lipl41 is not essential for acute leptospirosis but requires a small chaperone protein, lep, for stable expression

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2768-2776

  King, Amy M ^a   Bartpho, Thanatchaporn ^b   Sermswan, Rasana W ^b   Bulach, Dieter M ^a   Eshghi, Azad ^c   Picardeau, Mathieu ^c   Adler, Ben ^a   Murray, Gerald L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; LEP PROTEIN; LIPL41 PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STABLE EXPRESSION; TRANSPOSON; ZOONOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84880649123     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00531-13     Document Type: Article

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