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Adaptation of <i>Haemophilus influenzae</i> to acquired and innate humoral immunity based on phase variation of lipopolysaccharide
1 Nov 1998
Abstract excerpt
Phase variation in colony morphology has been associated with the pathogenesis of infection caused by Haemophilus influenzae. This study shows that differences in colony opacity in non-typeable H. influenzae (NTHi) strain H233 involve phase changes in the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and depend on the expression of licl and lic2, which contain translational switches based on intragenic tandem repeats of 5'-CAAT-3'....
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