Hypervariable region IV of Salmonella gene fliCd encodes a dominant surface epitope and a stabilizing factor for functional flagella.

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To identify the major antigenic determinant of native Salmonella flagella of antigenic type d, we constructed a series of mutated fliCd genes with deletions and amino acid alterations in hypervariable region IV and in region of putative epitopes as suggested by epitope mapping with synthetic octameric peptides (T.M. Joys and F. Schödel, Infect. Immun. 59:3330-3332, 1991). The expressed product of most of the...

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