Characterization of genetic exchanges between various highly divergent tbpBs, having occurred in Neisseria meningitidis

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-59

  Legrain, Michèle ^a   Rokbi, Bachra ^b   Villeval, Dominique ^a   Jacobs, Eric ^a  

^a TRANSGENE S A   (France)

^b Pasteur Merieux Connaught 1541 ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Mutation; Recombination; Transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEIN B; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0032536398     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00646-X     Document Type: Article

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