IgA Protease Production as a Characteristic Distinguishing Pathogenic from Harmless Neisseriaceae
- 2 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 299 (18) , 973-976
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197811022991802
Abstract
IgA proteases are extracellular enzymes of bacteria that have human immunoglobulin A of the IgA1 subclass as their only known substrate. The identification of this enzyme in neisseria prompted us to determine whether IgA protease production correlates with pathogenicity within this genus.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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