Simple sequence repeats in Helicobacter canadensis and their role in phase variable expression and C-terminal sequence switching

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Snyder, Lori A S ^a,b   Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Linton, James D ^c   Langdon, Rebecca R ^d   Weinstock, George M ^e   Wren, Brendan W ^d   Pallen, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPIMERASE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; STOP CODON; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 76949084810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-67     Document Type: Article

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