Expression of the pMGA genes of Mycoplasma gallisepticum is controlled by variation in the GAA trinucleotide repeat lengths within the 5' noncoding regions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5833-5841

  Glew, Michelle D ^a,b   Baseggio, Nina ^a   Markham, Philip F ^a   Browning, Glenn F ^a   Walker, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM;

EID: 0031771559     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.12.5833-5841.1998     Document Type: Article

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