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

Activation of a vmp pseudogene in Borrella hermsii: an alternate mechanism of antigenic variation during relapsing fever

1 Jul 1994

Abstract excerpt

The relapsing fever agent, Borrelia hermsii, undergoes multiphasic antigenic variation to evade its host's immune response. A frequently observed switch is serotype 7 to 26. Unlike silent vmp genes previously characterized, the transcriptionally silent vmp26 sequence was a pseudogene in lacking a start codon. In serotype 7 the location of the silent vmp26 sequence just downstream of vmp7 on the expression...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

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

Share to Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
Share to Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
Share to Vector-borne infectious diseases

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

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 7984108
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb00423.x

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

Activation of a vmp pseudogene in Borrella hermsii: an alternate mechanism of antigenic variation during relapsing feverPMID 7984108Read ↗

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Nothing is permanent but change’†- antigenic variation in persistent bacterial pathogensSemantic proximity Read ↗

Insights into mechanisms of bacterial antigenic variation derived from the complete genome sequence of Anaplasma marginale.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Antigenic variation of Anaplasma marginale msp2 occurs by combinatorial gene conversionSemantic proximity Read ↗

A family of surface-exposed proteins of 20 kilodaltons in the genus BorreliaSemantic proximity Read ↗

Antigenic variation by <i>Borrelia hermsii</i> occurs through recombination between extragenic repetitive elements on linear plasmidsSemantic proximity Read ↗

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