Novel Leptospira interrogans protein Lsa32 is expressed during infection and binds laminin and plasminogen

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 851-864

  Domingos, Renan F ^a,b   Fernandes, Luis G ^a,b   Romero, Eliete C ^c   De Morais, Zenaide M ^b   Vasconcellos, Silvio A ^b   Nascimento, Ana L T O ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HEXAHISTIDINE; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN LSA32; PROTEINASE K; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAMININ; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84965050692     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000041     Document Type: Article

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