Ureaplasma antigenic variation beyond MBA phase variation: DNA inversions generating chimeric structures and switching in expression of the MBA N-terminal paralogue UU172

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 663-676

  Zimmerman, Carl Ulrich R ^a   Rosengarten, Renate ^a   Spergser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIPLE BANDED ANTIGEN; PROTEIN UU172; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONE CELLS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE INVERSION; UREAPLASMA;

UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA PARVUM SEROVAR 3; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 78751693015     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07474.x     Document Type: Article

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