Structure of the chlamydia trachomatis immunodominant antigen Pgp3

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 22068-22079

  Galaleldeen, Ahmad ^a,b   Taylor, Alexander B ^a   Chen, Ding ^a   Schuermann, Jonathan P ^c   Holloway, Stephen P ^a   Hou, Shuping ^a   Gong, Siqi ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^a   Hart, P John ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GLOBULAR DOMAINS; HELICAL COILED-COIL; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL MOTIFS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY;

VIRUSES;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; LECTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCLA; PROTEIN PGP3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS; BETA-HELIX; BETA-PROPELLER; CHLAMYDIA; HELICAL COILED-COIL; IMMUNOLOGY; PGP3; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR (TNF); X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84881102201     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.475012     Document Type: Article

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