Borrelia burgdorferi supercoiled plasmids encode multicopy tandem open reading frames and a lipoprotein gene family

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3293-3307

  Porcella, Stephen F ^a   Popova, Taissia G ^a   Akins, Darrin R ^a   Li, Minyue ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; LIPOPROTEIN; PRIMER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HYDROPHILICITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0029950581     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3293-3307.1996     Document Type: Article

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