Suggested Role for G4 DNA in Recombinational Switching at the Antigenic Variation Locus of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Walia, Rupali ^a,b   Chaconas, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CODE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VLSE GENE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC LOCI; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84874561094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057792     Document Type: Article

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