Variation and molecular evolution of HmbR, the Neisseria meningitidis haemoglobin receptor

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1384-1393

  Evans, Nicholas J ^a,b,d   Harrison, Odile B ^c   Clow, Kirsten ^b   Derrick, Jeremy P ^a   Feavers, Ian M ^b   Maiden, Martin C J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN HMBR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLONING; CODON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HMBR GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 77952363560     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.036475-0     Document Type: Article

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