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SUBMITTER: Maeland JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4308872 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maeland Johan A JA Afset Jan E JE Lyng Randi V RV Radtke Andreas A
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 20141224 2
Nearly all Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus [GBS]) strains express a protein which belongs to the so-called alpha-like proteins (Alps), of which Cα, Alp1, Alp2, Alp3, Rib, and Alp4 are known to occur in GBS. The Alps are chimeras which form mosaic structures on the GBS surface. Both N- and C-terminal stretches of the Alps possess immunogenic sites of dissimilar immunological specificity. In this review, we have compiled data dealing with the specificity of the N- and C-terminal im ...[more]