IglE is an outer membrane-associated lipoprotein essential for intracellular survival and murine virulence of type A francisella tularensis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4026-4040

  Robertson, Gregory T ^a   Child, Robert ^b   Ingle, Christine ^a   Celli, Jean ^b,c   Norgard, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; IGLE PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PALMITIC ACID; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYMYXIN B; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRITIUM; TRITON X 114; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; VGRG GENE;

EID: 84886785179     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00595-13     Document Type: Article

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