Brucellosis 2003 proceedings - PHIDIAS

Scientific Program - Poster Session II
(from 13:00 Tuesday 16 to 18:30 Wednesday 17)
107- MAPPING OF THE PROTEINS OF Brucella abortus AND CROSS-REACTING BACTERIA
USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) ELECTROPHORESIS AND SELDI (SURFACE-ENHANCED
LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION) PROTEIN CHIP TECHNOLOGY .
Al Dahouk S. 1 , Tomaso H. 1 , Bogumil R. 2 , Bartling C. 1 , Neubauer H. 1 (1) Institute of Microbiology, Federal Armed Forces,
Munich, Germany. (2) Ciphergen Biosystems GmbH, Göttingen, Germany.
108- IDENTIFICATION OF IMMUNOGENIC PROTEINS IN THE PROTEOME OF Brucella
melitensis AND Brucella abortus USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS AND
IMMUNOBLOTTING.
Al Dahouk S. 1 , Tomaso H. 1 , Bartling C. 1 , Neubauer H. 1 (1) Institute of Microbiology, Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany.
109- COMPARATIVE PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF Brucella suis BIOVARS 1 AND 2 USING TWO-
DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS AND MASS SPECTROMETRY.
M.S. Zygmunt , C. Boursier and F. Carreras. Unité de Pathologie Infectieuse et Immunologie, Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, F-37380, Nouzilly, France.
110- IN SILICO ANALYSIS OF THE CtrA REGULON IN ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIA.
R.HALLEZ , A. F. BELLEFONTAINE, C. LAMBERT, J-J. LETESSON, J. VANDENHAUTE AND X. DE BOLLE. Unité de
Recherche en Biologie Moléculaire (URBM), Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Génétique Moléculaire, Facultés Universitaires
Notre-Dame de la Paix, B-5000 Namur, Belgium.
111- ROLE OF THE ALTERNATIVE SIGMA FACTORS IN Brucella melitensis 16M VIRULENCE.
M. Delory, V. Haine, R-M. Delrue, T. Laurent, A. Tibor, C. Lambert, J.J. Letesson and X. De Bolle. Unité de Recherche en
Biologie Moléculaire (U.R.B.M.), laboratoire d’Immunologie et de Microbiologie, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix,
Namur, Belgique.
112- IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BRUCEBACTIN TRANSPORT
SYSTEM.
M.I.González-Carreró, F.J.Sangari and J.M.García-Lobo. Departamento de Biología Molecular (Unidad asociada al Centro de
Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Cardenal Herrera Oria s/n, 39011
Santander, Spain.
113- CHARACTERISATION OF rpoB MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIFAMPIN-
RESISTANT PHENOTYPE IN Brucella spp.
Cinzia Marianelli, Paolo Pasquali, Franco Ciuchini, Massimiliano Francia, Geraldina Riccardi and Rosanna Adone. Dipartimento
di Sanità Alimentare ed Animale, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
114- EVIDENCE OF IS711 TRANSPOSITION IN B. ovis AND B. maris.
Alain Ocampo Sosa and Juan M. García-Lobo. Laboratorio de Microbiología. Departamento de Biología Molecular. Universidad
de Cantabria. Spain.
115- PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE GENUS Brucella WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO
MARINE MAMMAL ISOLATES.
M. Stubberfield 1 , J.Bashiruddin 1 , C. Dawson 1 , A. Whatmore 1 , G. Foster 2 , D. Ewalt 3 , A. MacMillan 1 . (1) Department of Statutory
and Exotic Bacterial Diseases, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Surrey, UK. (2) Scottish Agricultural College, Veterinary
Science Division, Inverness, UK. (3) USDA, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
116- THE Brucella melitensis FLAGELLAR GENES ARE NOT CRYPTIC.
D. Fretin, S. Leonard, P. Lestrate, R.-M. Delrue, J.-J. Letesson and A. Tibor. URBM, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la
Paix, rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium.
117- Brucella LIPIDS: CHARACTERIZATION OF pmtA, A GENE ENCODING A PHOSPHATIDYL-
ETAHNOLAMINE-N-METHYLTRANSFERASE INVOLVED IN PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE
SYNTHESIS.
R. Conde-Álvarez , I. Moriyón and M. Iriarte. Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
118- EXPRESSION OF THE ExoS PROTEIN FROM Sinorhizobium meliloti COMPLEMENTS
BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF A Brucella abortus MUTANT LACKING THE BvrS PROTEIN.
Esteban Chaves-Olarte, 1,2 Caterina Guzmán-Verri, 1 and Edgardo Moreno 1 . (1) Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades
Tropicales (PIET), Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Aptdo 304-3000 Heredia, Costa Rica. (2) Centro de
Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Facultad de Microbiología, Costa Rica.
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