Molecular models accounting for the gene conversion reactions mediating gonococcal pilin antigenic variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1146-1158

  Howell Adams, Becky ^a,b   Steven Seifert, H ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRID GENE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0033813156     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02067.x     Document Type: Article

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