Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

The relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii has multiple copies of its chromosome and linear plasmids.

1 Oct 1992

Abstract excerpt

Borrelia hermsii, a spirochete which causes relapsing fever in humans and other mammals, eludes the immune response by antigenic variation of the "Vmp" proteins. This occurs by replacement of an expressed vmp gene with a copy of a silent vmp gene. Silent and expressed vmp genes are located on separate linear plasmids. To further characterize vmp recombination, copy numbers were determined for two linear plasmids...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
Share to Vector-borne infectious diseases
Share to Viral Infections and Vectors

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy Delete account & data About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 1427031
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/132.2.311

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-08.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence. Graph snapshot: 2026-09-29.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

The relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii has multiple copies of its chromosome and linear plasmids.PMID 1427031Read ↗

Variable antigen genes of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii are activated by promoter additionSemantic proximity Read ↗

Large Linear Plasmids of Borrelia Species That Cause Relapsing FeverSemantic proximity Read ↗

Juxtaposition of expressed variable antigen genes with a conserved telomere in the bacterium Borrelia hermsii.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Surface Protein Variation by Expression Site Switching in the Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsiiSemantic proximity Read ↗

Inactivation of genes for antigenic variation in the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii reduces infectivity in mice and transmission by ticks.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Multiple and Diverse vsp and vlp Sequences in Borrelia miyamotoi, a Hard Tick-Borne Zoonotic PathogenSemantic proximity Read ↗

Antigenic variation with a twist – the <i>Borrelia</i> storySemantic proximity Read ↗

Conversion of a linear to a circular plasmid in the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsiiSemantic proximity Read ↗

Antigen diversity in the bacterium B. hermsii through "somatic" mutations in rearranged vmp genes.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Activation of a vmp pseudogene in Borrella hermsii: an alternate mechanism of antigenic variation during relapsing feverSemantic proximity Read ↗

Transposition of structural genes to an expression sequence on a linear plasmid causes antigenic variation in the bacterium Borrelia hermsii.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Comparative genomics analysis of three conserved plasmid families in the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae provides insight into variation in genome structure and antigenic variation systemsSemantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.