Gene organization and transcriptional analysis of the tprJ, tprI, tprG, and tprF loci in Treponema pallidum strains Nichols and Sea 81-4

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6084-6093

  Giacani, Lorenzo ^a   Hevner, Karin ^a   Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYPHILIS; TPRF GENE; TPRG GENE; TPRI GENE; TPRJ GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PORINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 24344476268     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.17.6084-6093.2005     Document Type: Article

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