Structure and function of repetitive sequence elements associated with a highly polymorphic domain of the Neisseria meningitidis PiIQ protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-124

  Tønjum, Tone ^a,b   Caugant, Dominique A ^c   Dunham, Steve A ^b   Koomey, Michael ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; EIKENELLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MORAXELLA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EIKENELLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031871011     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00910.x     Document Type: Article

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