A novel mechanism for control of antigenic variation in the haemagglutinin gene family of Mycoplasma synoviae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 911-923

  Noormohammadi, A H ^a   Markham, P F ^a   Kanci, A ^a   Whithear, K G ^a   Browning, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; REPETITIVE DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; START CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; AVES; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0033968698     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01766.x     Document Type: Article

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