Identification of a large family of slam-dependent surface lipoproteins in gram-negative bacteria

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Hooda, Yogesh ^a   Lai, Christine C L ^a   Moraes, Trevor F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial gene clusters; Flow cytometry; Gram negative bacteria; Outer membrane transporters; Protein translocation pathways; Surface lipoproteins

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FACTOR H-BINDING PROTEIN, NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BIOINFORMATICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; LIPOPROTEINS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEIN B;

EID: 85027447314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00207     Document Type: Article

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