Article
Sequence diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis flagellin (H antigen) protein at the intra-H serotype level.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2008
Xu Dong, Côté Jean-Charles
Abstract excerpt
In Bacillus thuringiensis, the hag gene encodes flagellin, the protein responsible for eliciting the immunological reaction in H serotyping. Specific flagellin amino acid sequences have been correlated to specific B. thuringiensis H serotypes, H1 to H67. Ten H serotypes, however, contain three or more antigenic subfactors, labeled a, b, c, d, or e, and have been subdivided into 23 serovars. In the present study,...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Flagellin
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Operon
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, Protein
- Serotyping