Activation of a p44 pseudogene in Anaplasma phagocytophila by bacterial RNA splicing: A novel mechanism for post-transcriptional regulation of a multigene family encoding immunodominant major outer membrane proteins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-145

  Zhi, Ning ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^b   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GENOMIC DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P44;

AMPLICON; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MAMMAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; START CODON; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EHRLICHIOSIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0036030825     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03143.x     Document Type: Article

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