Concerted evolution in the repeats of an immunomodulating cell surface protein, SOWgp, of the human pathogenic fungi Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-117

  Johannesson, Hanna ^a   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^b   Hung, Chiung Yu ^c   Cole, Garry T ^c   Taylor, John W ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; SOWGP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FUNGUS; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; FUNGI;

EID: 26444568774     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.040923     Document Type: Article

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