Neisseria meningitidis is an encapsulated Gram-negative bacterium responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Meningococci are opportunistic pathogens, carried in the nasopharynx of approximately 10% of asymptomatic adults. Here we describe a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis protein map of the serogroup A strain Z4970, a clinical isolate classified as ancestral to several pandemic waves. To our knowledge this is the first systematically annotated proteomic map for N. meningitidis.

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP A PROTEOMES 2DE/MS ANNOTATED MAPS AS A TOOL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MICROEVOLUTION DURING EPIDEMIC SPREADS.

Renzone G;Arena S;D'Ambrosio C;Scaloni A;
2004

Abstract

Neisseria meningitidis is an encapsulated Gram-negative bacterium responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Meningococci are opportunistic pathogens, carried in the nasopharynx of approximately 10% of asymptomatic adults. Here we describe a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis protein map of the serogroup A strain Z4970, a clinical isolate classified as ancestral to several pandemic waves. To our knowledge this is the first systematically annotated proteomic map for N. meningitidis.
2004
Istituto per il Sistema Produzione Animale in Ambiente Mediterraneo - ISPAAM
Neisseria meningitidis, pandemic, proteomics
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