Identification of a large motility operon in Borrelia burgdorferi by semi-random PCR chromosome walking

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-201

  Ge, Yigong ^a   Charon, Nyles W ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome walking; Lyme disease; Motility; PCR; Periplasmic flagella; Spirochetes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL LYSATE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHROMOSOME WALKING; FLAGELLA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031002014     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00848-7     Document Type: Article

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