Gene rearrangements in the vsa locus of Mycoplasma pulmonis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2900-2908

  Shen, Xuejun ^a   Gumulak, Juliann ^a   Yu, Huilan ^a   French, C Todd ^a   Zou, Nianxiang ^a   Dybvig, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOST CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034018444     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.10.2900-2908.2000     Document Type: Article

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