Adaptive surface variation in mycoplasmas.

doi:10.1016/0966-842x(93)90034-o

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Adaptive surface variation in mycoplasmas.

Trends in microbiology - 1 May 1993

Wise K S

Abstract excerpt

Mycoplasmas excel as infectious agents, despite their very small genomes. In one mycoplasma species, adaptive flexibility is enhanced by an elegant genetic system that diversifies the membrane surface through a set of variable lipoproteins (Vlps). A family of vlp genes supplies divergent coding s...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Lipoproteins
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Mycoplasma
Surface Properties

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