Sequence Analysis and Recombinant Expression of a 28-Kilodalton Treponema pallidum subsp . pallidum Rare Outer Membrane Protein ( Tromp 2 ) †

CHERYL I. CHAMPION,* DAVID R. BLANCO, MAURICE M. EXNER, HEDIYE ERDJUMENT-BROMAGE, ROBERT E. W. HANCOCK, PAUL TEMPST, JAMES N. MILLER, AND MICHAEL A. LOVETT Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3; and Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021

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