Initial peptide mass fingerprinting analysis of proteins obtained by lysis of Coxiella burnetii cells

Abstract

Whereas the complete genome of Coxiella burnetii (C.b.), the etiological agent of Q-fever, has recently been published, the C.b. proteome is still under study. Using the bioniformatic approach, we found in total 309 proteins on two dimensional electrophoretic images of C.b. whole cell lysates.