Characterization of the vls antigenic variation loci of the lyme disease spirochaetes Borrelia garinii Ip90 and Borrelia afzelii ACAI

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1407-1417

  Wang, Dachun ^a   Botkin, Douglas J ^a   Norris, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE;

ACRODERMATITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TICKS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 0037338675     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03386.x     Document Type: Article

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