Characterization of a variant vlhA gene of Mycoplasma synoviae, strain WVU 1853, with a highly divergent haemagglutinin region

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Béjaoui Khiari, Awatef ^a   Guériri, Ibtissem ^a   Ben Mohammed, Radhia ^a   Ben Abdelmoumen Mardassi, Boutheina ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LECTIN; VLHA PROTEIN, MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VLHA GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTININS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77249171222     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-6     Document Type: Article

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