Evolution of the paralogous hap and iga genes in Haemophilus influenzae: Evidence for a conserved hap pseudogene associated with microcolony formation in the recently diverged Haemophilus aegyptius and H. influenzae biogroup aegyptius

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1367-1380

  Kilian, Mogens ^a   Poulsen, Knud ^a   Lomholt, Hans ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN HAP; PROTEIN IAG1; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HAP PROTEIN, HEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IGA SPECIFIC SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASE; IGA-SPECIFIC SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COLONY FORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS AEGYPTIUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAP GENE; IGA GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL CULTURE; CONJUNCTIVA; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS AEGYPTIUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0036885988     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03254.x     Document Type: Article

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