Article
The opacity proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain MS11 are encoded by a family of 11 complete genes.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1991
Bhat K S, Gibbs C P, Barrera O, Morrison S G, Jähnig F, Stern A, Kupsch E M, Meyer T F, Swanson J
Abstract excerpt
Variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 show distinct colony morphologies because of the expression of a class of surface components called opacity (Opa, PII) proteins. Southern analyses combined with molecular cloning of genomic DNA from a single variant of MS11 has identified 11 opa genes contained in separate loci. These opa genes code for distinct opacity proteins which are distinguishable at their variable...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Expression