SMART Team Investigations

  
Neisseria meningitidis Pathway to Entry 
 (2010-11  SMART Team)

•Summary
                         •Jmol Animations 
                               •OpcA
                                     •Heparin
                                              •Fibronectin
                                     •Three Proteins Involved in Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier
                               •Abstracts 
                                     •OpcA
                                     •Heparin
                                     •Fibronectin                      
   •3 PowerPoints Describing the Story
                     • Meningitis
                                     •Meningitis... A Smooth Criminal 
                              •Neisseria Meningitidis...Bacterial Sleeper Cell
   •SMART Team Members


OpcA


Heparin


Fibronectin

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Background images are from pdb files downloaded from the Protein Data Bank.
 http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do

The images are of catalase, single stranded DNA, and of insulin. 
The pdb file numbers (Brookhaven Extension numbers) are 4BLC, 1EW1,  and 2CEU.