Antigen diversity in the bacterium B. hermsii through "Somatic" mutations in rearranged vmp genes

Cell

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 867-876

  Restrepo, Blanca I ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a Medicine Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SILENT GENE; SOMATIC MUTATION; TELOMERE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA HERMSII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0027965079     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(94)90642-4     Document Type: Article

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