A gene family in Mycoplasma imitans closely related to the pMGA family of Mycoplasma gallisepticum

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2095-2103

  Markham, Philip F ^a   Duffy, Michael F ^a,b   Glew, Michelle D ^a,c   Browning, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Walter Elisa Hall Inst Med Res ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Multigene family; Mycoplasma imitans; pMGA homologue

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL DNA; CONTIG; DNA FRAGMENT; HEMAGGLUTININ; LIPOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE II;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA IMITANS; MYCOPLASMA IOWAE; MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; MYCOPLASMA PIRUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE;

EID: 0032822660     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-8-2095     Document Type: Article

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