A homologue of the recombination-dependent growth gene, rdgC, is involved in gonococcal pilin antigenic variation

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 523-532

  Mehr, Ian J ^a,b   Long, Cynthia D ^a   Serkin, Carla D ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PILIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033968143     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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