Phase and antigenic variation in mycoplasmas

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1073-1085

  Citti, Christine ^a,b   Nouvel, Laurent Xavier ^a,b   Baranowski, Eric ^a,b  

^a IHAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

antigenic variation; immune evasion; lipoproteins; minimal cell; mycoplasmas; phase variation; population dynamics; surface diversity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MYCOPLASMATALES; PROKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 77954746919     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.71     Document Type: Review

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