Article
Bacterial lactoferrin receptors: insights from characterizing the Moraxella bovis receptors.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire - 1 Jan 2002
Yu Rong-Hua, Schryvers Anthony B
Abstract excerpt
Moraxella bovis is the causative agent of infectious conjunctivitis in cattle. Moraxella bovis isolates were shown to specifically bind bovine lactoferrin (bLf) and bovine transferrin (bTf) and to use these proteins as a source of iron to support the growth of iron-limited cells. Affinity isolation experiments with immobilized bTf yielded two proteins readily resolved by SDS-PAGE analysis, whereas only a single...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Vaccines
- Cattle
- Cell Division
- Chromatography, Affinity
- Cloning, Molecular
- Genes, Bacterial
- Iron
- Lactoferrin
- Ligands
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Moraxella bovis
- Mutation
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Substrate Specificity
- Transferrin