The sequence of the acidic repeat protein (arp) gene differentiates venereal from nonvenereal Treponema pallidum subspecies, and the gene has evolved under strong positive selection in the subspecies that causes syphilis

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-332

  Harper, Kristin N ^b   Liu, Hsi ^a   Ocampo, Paolo S ^c   Steiner, Bret M ^a   Martin, Amy ^a   Levert, Keith ^a   Wang, Dongxia ^a   Sutton, Madeline ^a   Armelagos, George J ^b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

arp; Repeat region; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum; Typing; Yaws

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ARP; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBSPECIES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABBITS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 48449099815     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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