Article
The adhesin related 30-kDa protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae exhibits size and antigen variability.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jul 1997
Layh-Schmitt G, Himmelreich R, Leibfried U
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a pathogenic bacterium colonizing epithelial cells of the human respirator tract. Using an erythrocyte binding assay we isolated a cytadsorption negative mutant designated M7 which has lost 12 of a total of 13 repetitive sequences of a proline rich C-terminal region of th...
Topics
- Adhesins, Bacterial
- Base Sequence
- Carboxypeptidases
- Cathepsin A
- Immunoblotting
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Weight
- Mutation
- Structure-Activity Relationship