vrrB, a hypervariable open reading frame in Bacillus anthracis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3989-3997

  Schupp, James M ^a   Klevytska, Alexandra M ^a   Zinser, Guenevier ^a   Price, Lance B ^a   Keim, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033943001     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.14.3989-3997.2000     Document Type: Article

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