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The Vaccine Candidate Substrate Binding Protein SBP2 Plays a Key Role in Arginine Uptake, Which Is Required for Growth of Moraxella catarrhalis.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 2016
Otsuka Taketo, Kirkham Charmaine, Brauer Aimee, Koszelak-Rosenblum Mary, Malkowski Michael G, Murphy Timothy F
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Moraxella catarrhalis is an exclusively human pathogen that is an important cause of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A vaccine to prevent M. catarrhalis infections would have an enormous global impact in reducing morbidity resulting from these infections. Substrate binding protein 2 (SBP2) of an ABC transporter system has...
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