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Adaptive surface variation in mycoplasmas.

Trends in microbiology - 1 May 1993

Wise K S

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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 sequences and undergoes high-frequency mutations, thus creating large repertoires of surface mosaics and structural...

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PMID: 8044463
DOI: 10.1016/0966-842x(93)90034-o
PMCID: PMC7133286

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