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Proteome analysis of Rickettsia conorii by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry.
Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille, France.
FEMS Microbiology Letters (impact factor:
2.04).
05/2005;
245(2):231-8.
DOI:10.1016/j.femsle.2005.03.004
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Keywords
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different experimental conditions
first reference map
immunogenic proteins
intracellular bacterium responsible
major antigen
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
patients
potential vaccine targets
proteins
R. conorii
R. conorii proteome
two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
