An alternative DNA structure is necessary for pilin antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5941, 2009, Pages 764-767

  Cahoon, Laty A ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN;

ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM; DNA; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INHIBITION; RECOMBINATION;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CONVERSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE CONVERSION; GUANINE; MESOPORPHYRINS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 68449102464     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175653     Document Type: Article

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