Diversity in coding tandem repeats in related Neisseria spp.

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-15

  Jordan, Philip ^a   Snyder, Lori A S ^a   Saunders, Nigel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUTATION; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PILQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LIPOPROTEINS; NEISSERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 2942706116     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-3-23     Document Type: Article

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