Structure and genotypic plasticity of the Campylobacter fetus sap locus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 685-698

  Tu, Zheng Chao ^a   Wassenaar, Trudy M ^b   Thompson, Stuart A ^c   Blaser, Martin J ^a,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Molec Microbiol/Genom Consultants   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SAPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037673494     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03463.x     Document Type: Article

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