Article
Diversity of expressed vlhA adhesin sequences and intermediate hemagglutination phenotypes in Mycoplasma synoviae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 2011
May Meghan, Brown Daniel R
Abstract excerpt
A reservoir of pseudogene alleles encoding the primary adhesin VlhA occurs in the avian pathogen Mycoplasma synoviae. Recombination between this reservoir and its single expression site was predicted to result in lineages of M. synoviae that each express a different vlhA allele as a consequence of host immune responses to those antigens. Such interstrain diversity at the vlhA expression site, including major...
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