Leptospiral Outer Membrane Protein LipL41 Is Not Essential for Acute Leptospirosis but Requires a Small Chaperone Protein, Lep, for Stable Expression
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Leptospiral outer membrane proteins OmpL1 and LipL41 exhibit synergistic immunoprotection.
New vaccine strategies are needed for prevention of leptospirosis, a widespread human and veterinary disease caused by invasive spirochetes belonging to the genus Leptospira. We have examined the immunoprotective capacity of the leptospiral porin OmpL1 and the leptospiral outer membrane lipoprotein LipL41 in the Golden Syrian hamster model of leptospirosis. Specialized expression plasmids were ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.00531-13