Sequence and expression analysis of the ompA gene of Rickettsia peacockii, an endosymbiont of the rocky mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6628-6636

  Baldridge, Gerald D ^a   Burkhardt, Nicole Y ^a   Simser, Jason A ^b   Kurtti, Timothy J ^a   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYACRYLATES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE-POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE (SFGR);

GENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PEACOCKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA TRANSLATION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; COLORADO; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PEACOCKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIALES; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP;

EID: 8744220571     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.11.6628-6636.2004     Document Type: Article

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