Sequence analysis of the chromosomal region around and within the V-1-encoding gene of Mycoplasma pulmonis: Evidence for DNA inversion as a mechanism for V-1 variation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 472-479

  Simmons, Warren L ^a   Zuhua, Cao ^a   Glass, John I ^a   Simecka, Jerry W ^a   Cassell, Gail H ^a   Watson, Harold L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RABBITS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030032093     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.472-479.1996     Document Type: Article

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