Domain exchange at the 3' end of the gene encoding the fratricide meningococcal two-partner secretion protein A

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Arenas, Jesús ^a   Schipper, Kim ^b   van Ulsen, Peter ^c   van der Ende, Arie ^b   Tommassen, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contact dependent growth inhibition; Gene conversion; Interstrain competition; Neisseria meningitidis; Two partner secretion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; TWO PARTNER SECRETION PROTEIN A; TWO PARTNER SECRETION PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TPSA GENE; TPSC GENE;

NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84883672967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-622     Document Type: Article

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