Phenotypic switching in Mycoplasma gallisepticum hemadsorption is governed by a high-frequency, reversible point mutation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1265-1273

  Winner, Florian ^a,b   Markovà, Ivana ^a   Much, Peter ^a,c   Lugmair, Albin ^a   Siebert Gulle, Karin ^a   Vogl, Gunther ^a   Rosengarten, Renate ^a   Citti, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Lambda GmbH   (Austria)

^c Fed Inst for Ctrl of Infect Dis   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTADHESIN; CYTOKINE RESPONSE MODIFIER A; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN GAPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHICKEN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; HEMADSORPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SINUSITIS; STOP CODON; TURKEY (BIRD);

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMADSORPTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; SERPINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037373307     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.3.1265-1273.2003     Document Type: Article

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