title: The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of the cationic 19 kDa outer membrane protein OmpH of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
abstract: The OmpH proteins of enteric bacteria are recently described, small (16 kDa), cationic outer membrane proteins. Because a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cell envelope protein of this size has been found to cross-react serologically with the human histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27 (B*2701), the sequence of Y. pseudotuberculosis OmpH was determined by sequencing the gene region which encodes mature OmpH. A protein consisting of 143 amino acid residues was found. It was 96% homologous with the OmpH of Y. enterocolitica and 62% homologous with that of Escherichia coli. Two separate OmpH regions had sequence similarity with B*2701; they were identical in both Yersinia species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vuorio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hirvas
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Raybourne
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaara
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015011:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen; C067128:ompH protein, bacteria