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| 2019 |
Lei B, Minor D, Feng W, Jerome M, Quinn MT, Jutila MA, Liu M. Tissue Tropism in Streptococcal Infection: Wild-Type M1T1 Group A is Efficiently Cleared by Neutrophils Using an NADPH Oxidase-Dependent Mechanism in the Lung but not in the Skin. Infection and Immunity. PMID 31331954 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00527-19 |
0.323 |
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| 2018 |
Lei B, Minor D, Feng W, Liu M. Hypervirulent Group Aof Genotype3 Invades the Vascular System in Pulmonary Infection of Mice. Infection and Immunity. PMID 29610254 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00080-18 |
0.332 |
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| 2017 |
Feng W, Minor D, Liu M, Lei B. Requirement and Synergistic Contribution of PAF acetylhydrolase Sse and Streptolysin S to Inhibition of Neutrophil Recruitment and Systemic Infection by Hypervirulent emm3 Group A Streptococcus in Subcutaneous Infection of Mice. Infection and Immunity. PMID 28947648 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00530-17 |
0.321 |
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| 2016 |
Feng W, Minor D, Liu M, Li J, Ishaq SL, Yeoman C, Lei B. Null Mutations of Group A Streptococcus Orphan Kinase RocA: Selection in Mouse Infection and Comparison with CovS Mutations in Alteration of in vitro and in vivo Protease SpeB Expression and Virulence. Infection and Immunity. PMID 27795364 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00790-16 |
0.363 |
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| 2016 |
Feng W, Liu M, Chen DG, Yiu R, Fang FC, Lei B. Contemporary Pharyngeal and Invasive emm1 and Invasive emm12 Group A Streptococcus Isolates Exhibit Similar In Vivo Selection for CovRS Mutants in Mice. Plos One. 11: e0162742. PMID 27611332 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0162742 |
0.352 |
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| 2015 |
Liu G, Feng W, Li D, Liu M, Nelson DC, Lei B. The Mga Regulon but not Deoxyribonuclease Sda1 of Invasive M1T1 Group A Streptococcus Contributes to in vivo Selection of CovRS Mutations and Resistance to Innate Immune Killing Mechanisms. Infection and Immunity. PMID 26283338 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00857-15 |
0.362 |
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| 2015 |
Stetzner ZW, Li D, Feng W, Liu M, Liu G, Wiley J, Lei B. Serotype M3 and M28 Group A Streptococci Have Distinct Capacities to Evade Neutrophil and TNF-α Responses and to Invade Soft Tissues. Plos One. 10: e0129417. PMID 26047469 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0129417 |
0.354 |
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| 2015 |
Liu M, Feng W, Zhu H, Lei B. A Neutralizing Monoclonal IgG1 Antibody of Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase SsE Protects Mice against Lethal Subcutaneous Group A Streptococcus Infection. Infection and Immunity. 83: 2796-805. PMID 25916987 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00073-15 |
0.358 |
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| 2014 |
Li J, Liu G, Feng W, Zhou Y, Liu M, Wiley JA, Lei B. Neutrophils select hypervirulent CovRS mutants of M1T1 group A Streptococcus during subcutaneous infection of mice. Infection and Immunity. 82: 1579-90. PMID 24452689 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.01458-13 |
0.345 |
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| 2014 |
Fonner BA, Tripet BP, Lui M, Zhu H, Lei B, Copié V. ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁵N backbone and side chain NMR resonance assignments of the N-terminal NEAr iron transporter domain 1 (NEAT 1) of the hemoglobin receptor IsdB of Staphylococcus aureus. Biomolecular Nmr Assignments. 8: 201-5. PMID 23686822 DOI: 10.1007/S12104-013-9483-5 |
0.387 |
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| 2013 |
Zhou Y, Hanks TS, Feng W, Li J, Liu G, Liu M, Lei B. The sagA/pel locus does not regulate the expression of the M protein of the M1T1 lineage of group A Streptococcus. Virulence. 4: 698-706. PMID 24121654 DOI: 10.4161/Viru.26413 |
0.372 |
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| 2013 |
Ran Y, Malmirchegini GR, Clubb RT, Lei B. Axial ligand replacement mechanism in heme transfer from streptococcal heme-binding protein Shp to HtsA of the HtsABC transporter. Biochemistry. 52: 6537-47. PMID 23980583 DOI: 10.1021/Bi400965U |
0.589 |
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| 2013 |
Li J, Zhu H, Feng W, Liu M, Song Y, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Bei W, Lei B. Regulation of inhibition of neutrophil infiltration by the two-component regulatory system CovRS in subcutaneous murine infection with group A streptococcus. Infection and Immunity. 81: 974-83. PMID 23319556 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.01218-12 |
0.37 |
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| 2013 |
Spirig T, Malmirchegini GR, Zhang J, Robson SA, Sjodt M, Liu M, Krishna Kumar K, Dickson CF, Gell DA, Lei B, Loo JA, Clubb RT. Staphylococcus aureus uses a novel multidomain receptor to break apart human hemoglobin and steal its heme. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288: 1065-78. PMID 23132864 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M112.419119 |
0.352 |
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| 2012 |
Lu C, Xie G, Liu M, Zhu H, Lei B. Direct heme transfer reactions in the Group A Streptococcus heme acquisition pathway. Plos One. 7: e37556. PMID 22649539 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0037556 |
0.392 |
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| 2012 |
Liu M, Zhu H, Li J, Garcia CC, Feng W, Kirpotina LN, Hilmer J, Tavares LP, Layton AW, Quinn MT, Bothner B, Teixeira MM, Lei B. Group A Streptococcus secreted esterase hydrolyzes platelet-activating factor to impede neutrophil recruitment and facilitate innate immune evasion. Plos Pathogens. 8: e1002624. PMID 22496650 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Ppat.1002624 |
0.378 |
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| 2012 |
Liu G, Liu M, Kim EH, Maaty WS, Bothner B, Lei B, Rensing C, Wang G, McDermott TR. A periplasmic arsenite-binding protein involved in regulating arsenite oxidation. Environmental Microbiology. 14: 1624-34. PMID 22176720 DOI: 10.1111/J.1462-2920.2011.02672.X |
0.35 |
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| 2011 |
Villareal VA, Spirig T, Robson SA, Liu M, Lei B, Clubb RT. Transient weak protein-protein complexes transfer heme across the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133: 14176-9. PMID 21834592 DOI: 10.1021/Ja203805B |
0.403 |
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| 2010 |
Lei B. Benfang Lei's research on heme acquisition in Gram-positive pathogens and bacterial pathogenesis. World Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1: 286-90. PMID 21537486 DOI: 10.4331/Wjbc.V1.I9.286 |
0.419 |
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| 2010 |
Liu M, Lei B. IgG Endopeptidase SeMac does not Inhibit Opsonophagocytosis of Streptococcus equi Subspecies equi by Horse Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes. The Open Microbiology Journal. 4: 20-5. PMID 20556207 DOI: 10.2174/1874285801004010020 |
0.381 |
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| 2010 |
Ran Y, Liu M, Zhu H, Nygaard TK, Brown DE, Fabian M, Dooley DM, Lei B. Spectroscopic identification of heme axial ligands in HtsA that are involved in heme acquisition by Streptococcus pyogenes. Biochemistry. 49: 2834-42. PMID 20180543 DOI: 10.1021/Bi901987H |
0.573 |
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| 2010 |
Olsen RJ, Sitkiewicz I, Ayeras AA, Gonulal VE, Cantu C, Beres SB, Green NM, Lei B, Humbird T, Greaver J, Chang E, Ragasa WP, Montgomery CA, Cartwright J, McGeer A, et al. Decreased necrotizing fasciitis capacity caused by a single nucleotide mutation that alters a multiple gene virulence axis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 888-93. PMID 20080771 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0911811107 |
0.352 |
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| 2009 |
Zhu H, Liu M, Sumby P, Lei B. The secreted esterase of group a streptococcus is important for invasive skin infection and dissemination in mice. Infection and Immunity. 77: 5225-32. PMID 19805529 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00636-09 |
0.356 |
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| 2008 |
Liu M, McClure MJ, Zhu H, Xie G, Lei B. The Two-Component Regulatory System VicRK is Important to Virulence of Streptococcus equi Subspecies equi. The Open Microbiology Journal. 2: 89-93. PMID 19088917 DOI: 10.2174/1874285800802010089 |
0.327 |
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| 2008 |
Zhu H, Xie G, Liu M, Olson JS, Fabian M, Dooley DM, Lei B. Pathway for heme uptake from human methemoglobin by the iron-regulated surface determinants system of Staphylococcus aureus. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283: 18450-60. PMID 18467329 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M801466200 |
0.355 |
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| 2008 |
Zhu H, Liu M, Lei B. The surface protein Shr of Streptococcus pyogenes binds heme and transfers it to the streptococcal heme-binding protein Shp. Bmc Microbiology. 8: 15. PMID 18215300 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-15 |
0.405 |
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| 2008 |
Liu M, Tanaka WN, Zhu H, Xie G, Dooley DM, Lei B. Direct hemin transfer from IsdA to IsdC in the iron-regulated surface determinant (Isd) heme acquisition system of Staphylococcus aureus. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283: 6668-76. PMID 18184657 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M708372200 |
0.391 |
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| 2007 |
Aranda R, Worley CE, Liu M, Bitto E, Cates MS, Olson JS, Lei B, Phillips GN. Bis-methionyl coordination in the crystal structure of the heme-binding domain of the streptococcal cell surface protein Shp. Journal of Molecular Biology. 374: 374-83. PMID 17920629 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2007.08.058 |
0.392 |
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| 2007 |
Ran Y, Zhu H, Liu M, Fabian M, Olson JS, Aranda R, Phillips GN, Dooley DM, Lei B. Bis-methionine ligation to heme iron in the streptococcal cell surface protein Shp facilitates rapid hemin transfer to HtsA of the HtsABC transporter. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282: 31380-8. PMID 17699155 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M705967200 |
0.596 |
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| 2007 |
Liu M, Zhu H, Zhang J, Lei B. Active and passive immunizations with the streptococcal esterase Sse protect mice against subcutaneous infection with group A streptococci. Infection and Immunity. 75: 3651-7. PMID 17502395 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00038-07 |
0.368 |
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| 2006 |
Nygaard TK, Liu M, McClure MJ, Lei B. Identification and characterization of the heme-binding proteins SeShp and SeHtsA of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi. Bmc Microbiology. 6: 82. PMID 17007644 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-82 |
0.37 |
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| 2006 |
Hanks TS, Liu M, McClure MJ, Fukumura M, Duffy A, Lei B. Differential regulation of iron- and manganese-specific MtsABC and heme-specific HtsABC transporters by the metalloregulator MtsR of group A Streptococcus. Infection and Immunity. 74: 5132-9. PMID 16926405 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.00176-06 |
0.337 |
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| 2006 |
Nygaard TK, Blouin GC, Liu M, Fukumura M, Olson JS, Fabian M, Dooley DM, Lei B. The mechanism of direct heme transfer from the streptococcal cell surface protein Shp to HtsA of the HtsABC transporter. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281: 20761-71. PMID 16717094 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M601832200 |
0.317 |
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| 2006 |
Liu M, Hanks TS, Zhang J, McClure MJ, Siemsen DW, Elser JL, Quinn MT, Lei B. Defects in ex vivo and in vivo growth and sensitivity to osmotic stress of group A Streptococcus caused by interruption of response regulator gene vicR. Microbiology (Reading, England). 152: 967-78. PMID 16549661 DOI: 10.1099/Mic.0.28706-0 |
0.34 |
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| 2005 |
Hanks TS, Liu M, McClure MJ, Lei B. ABC transporter FtsABCD of Streptococcus pyogenes mediates uptake of ferric ferrichrome. Bmc Microbiology. 5: 62. PMID 16225685 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-5-62 |
0.307 |
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| 2005 |
Liu M, Lei B. Heme transfer from streptococcal cell surface protein Shp to HtsA of transporter HtsABC. Infection and Immunity. 73: 5086-92. PMID 16041024 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.73.8.5086-5092.2005 |
0.43 |
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| 2005 |
Lei B, Wang H, Yu Y, Tu SC. Redox potential and equilibria in the reductive half-reaction of Vibrio harveyi NADPH-FMN oxidoreductase. Biochemistry. 44: 261-7. PMID 15628867 DOI: 10.1021/Bi047952S |
0.321 |
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| 2004 |
Agniswamy J, Lei B, Musser JM, Sun PD. Insight of host immune evasion mediated by two variants of group a Streptococcus Mac protein. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279: 52789-96. PMID 15466462 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M410698200 |
0.344 |
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| 2004 |
Nagiec MJ, Lei B, Parker SK, Vasil ML, Matsumoto M, Ireland RM, Beres SB, Hoe NP, Musser JM. Analysis of a novel prophage-encoded group A Streptococcus extracellular phospholipase A(2). The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279: 45909-18. PMID 15304506 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M405434200 |
0.391 |
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| 2004 |
Lei B, Liu M, Chesney GL, Musser JM. Identification of new candidate vaccine antigens made by Streptococcus pyogenes: purification and characterization of 16 putative extracellular lipoproteins. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 189: 79-89. PMID 14702157 DOI: 10.1086/380491 |
0.379 |
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| 2003 |
Banks DJ, Lei B, Musser JM. Prophage induction and expression of prophage-encoded virulence factors in group A Streptococcus serotype M3 strain MGAS315. Infection and Immunity. 71: 7079-86. PMID 14638798 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.71.12.7079-7086.2003 |
0.325 |
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| 2003 |
Reid SD, Montgomery AG, Voyich JM, DeLeo FR, Lei B, Ireland RM, Green NM, Liu M, Lukomski S, Musser JM. Characterization of an extracellular virulence factor made by group A Streptococcus with homology to the Listeria monocytogenes internalin family of proteins. Infection and Immunity. 71: 7043-52. PMID 14638794 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.71.12.7043-7052.2003 |
0.403 |
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| 2003 |
Lei B, Liu M, Voyich JM, Prater CI, Kala SV, DeLeo FR, Musser JM. Identification and characterization of HtsA, a second heme-binding protein made by Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection and Immunity. 71: 5962-9. PMID 14500516 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.71.10.5962-5969.2003 |
0.404 |
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| 2003 |
Lei B, Liu M, Meyers EG, Manning HM, Nagiec MJ, Musser JM. Histidine and aspartic acid residues important for immunoglobulin G endopeptidase activity of the group A Streptococcus opsonophagocytosis-inhibiting Mac protein. Infection and Immunity. 71: 2881-4. PMID 12704162 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.71.5.2881-2884.2003 |
0.389 |
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| 2003 |
Voyich JM, Sturdevant DE, Braughton KR, Kobayashi SD, Lei B, Virtaneva K, Dorward DW, Musser JM, DeLeo FR. Genome-wide protective response used by group A Streptococcus to evade destruction by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100: 1996-2001. PMID 12574517 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0337370100 |
0.358 |
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| 2003 |
Wei CJ, Lei B, Musser JM, Tu SC. Isoniazid activation defects in recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalase-peroxidase (KatG) mutants evident in InhA inhibitor production. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 47: 670-5. PMID 12543676 DOI: 10.1128/Aac.47.2.670-675.2003 |
0.335 |
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| 2002 |
Lei B, DeLeo FR, Reid SD, Voyich JM, Magoun L, Liu M, Braughton KR, Ricklefs S, Hoe NP, Cole RL, Leong JM, Musser JM. Opsonophagocytosis-inhibiting mac protein of group a streptococcus: identification and characteristics of two genetic complexes. Infection and Immunity. 70: 6880-90. PMID 12438365 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.70.12.6880-6890.2002 |
0.374 |
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| 2002 |
Beres SB, Sylva GL, Barbian KD, Lei B, Hoff JS, Mammarella ND, Liu MY, Smoot JC, Porcella SF, Parkins LD, Campbell DS, Smith TM, McCormick JK, Leung DY, Schlievert PM, et al. Genome sequence of a serotype M3 strain of group A Streptococcus: phage-encoded toxins, the high-virulence phenotype, and clone emergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 10078-83. PMID 12122206 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.152298499 |
0.342 |
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| 2002 |
Lei B, Smoot LM, Menning HM, Voyich JM, Kala SV, Deleo FR, Reid SD, Musser JM. Identification and characterization of a novel heme-associated cell surface protein made by Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection and Immunity. 70: 4494-500. PMID 12117961 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.70.8.4494-4500.2002 |
0.417 |
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| 2001 |
Lei B, DeLeo FR, Hoe NP, Graham MR, Mackie SM, Cole RL, Liu M, Hill HR, Low DE, Federle MJ, Scott JR, Musser JM. Evasion of human innate and acquired immunity by a bacterial homolog of CD11b that inhibits opsonophagocytosis. Nature Medicine. 7: 1298-305. PMID 11726969 DOI: 10.1038/Nm1201-1298 |
0.37 |
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| 2001 |
Reid SD, Green NM, Buss JK, Lei B, Musser JM. Multilocus analysis of extracellular putative virulence proteins made by group A Streptococcus: population genetics, human serologic response, and gene transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98: 7552-7. PMID 11416223 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.121188598 |
0.328 |
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| 2001 |
Graham MR, Smoot LM, Lei B, Musser JM. Toward a genome-scale understanding of group A Streptococcus pathogenesis Current Opinion in Microbiology. 4: 65-70. PMID 11173036 DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00166-1 |
0.313 |
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| 2000 |
Tzeng SR, Pai MT, Lung FD, Wu CW, Roller PP, Lei B, Wei CJ, Tu SC, Chen SH, Soong WJ, Cheng JW. Stability and peptide binding specificity of Btk SH2 domain: molecular basis for X-linked agammaglobulinemia. Protein Science : a Publication of the Protein Society. 9: 2377-85. PMID 11206059 DOI: 10.1110/Ps.9.12.2377 |
0.322 |
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| 2000 |
Lei B, Mackie S, Lukomski S, Musser JM. Identification and immunogenicity of group A Streptococcus culture supernatant proteins Infection and Immunity. 68: 6807-6818. PMID 11083799 DOI: 10.1128/Iai.68.12.6807-6818.2000 |
0.378 |
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| 2000 |
Wang H, Lei B, Tu SC. Vibrio harveyi NADPH-FMN oxidoreductase arg203 as a critical residue for NADPH recognition and binding. Biochemistry. 39: 7813-9. PMID 10869187 DOI: 10.1021/Bi0003745 |
0.337 |
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| 2000 |
Tu SC, Lei B, Liu M, Tang CK, Jeffers C. Probing the mechanisms of the biological intermolecular transfer of reduced flavin. The Journal of Nutrition. 130: 331S-332S. PMID 10721898 DOI: 10.1093/Jn/130.2.331S |
0.321 |
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| 1999 |
Moore C, Lei B, Tu SC. Relationship between the conserved alpha subunit arginine 107 and effects of phosphate on the activity and stability of Vibrio harveyi luciferase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 370: 45-50. PMID 10496975 DOI: 10.1006/Abbi.1999.1379 |
0.331 |
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| 1998 |
Lei B, Tu SC. Mechanism of reduced flavin transfer from Vibrio harveyi NADPH-FMN oxidoreductase to luciferase. Biochemistry. 37: 14623-9. PMID 9772191 DOI: 10.1021/Bi981841+ |
0.304 |
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| 1997 |
Liu M, Lei B, Ding Q, Lee JC, Tu SC. Vibrio harveyi NADPH:FMN oxidoreductase: preparation and characterization of the apoenzyme and monomer-dimer equilibrium. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 337: 89-95. PMID 8990272 DOI: 10.1006/Abbi.1996.9746 |
0.333 |
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| 1996 |
Tanner JJ, Lei B, Tu SC, Krause KL. Flavin reductase P: structure of a dimeric enzyme that reduces flavin. Biochemistry. 35: 13531-9. PMID 8885832 DOI: 10.1021/Bi961400V |
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| 1996 |
Lei B, Tu SC. Gene overexpression, purification, and identification of a desulfurization enzyme from Rhodococcus sp. strain IGTS8 as a sulfide/sulfoxide monooxygenase. Journal of Bacteriology. 178: 5699-705. PMID 8824615 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.178.19.5699-5705.1996 |
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| 1994 |
Lei B, Liu M, Huang S, Tu SC. Vibrio harveyi NADPH-flavin oxidoreductase: cloning, sequencing and overexpression of the gene and purification and characterization of the cloned enzyme. Journal of Bacteriology. 176: 3552-8. PMID 8206832 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.176.12.3552-3558.1994 |
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