Generation of Campylobacter fetus S-layer protein diversity utilizes a single promoter on an invertible DNA segment.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02469.x

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Generation of Campylobacter fetus S-layer protein diversity utilizes a single promoter on an invertible DNA segment.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Mar 1996

Dworkin J, Blaser M J

Abstract excerpt

Wild-type strains of Campylobacter fetus contain a monomolecular array of surface layer proteins (SLPs) and vary the antigenicity of the predominant SLP expressed. Reciprocal recombination events among the eight genomic SLP gene cassettes, which encode 97- to 149 kDa SLPs, permit this variation....

Topics

Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Bacterial Proteins
Base Sequence
Campylobacter fetus
DNA, Bacterial
Genes, Bacterial
Genetic Variation
Membrane Glycoproteins
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Phenotype
Promoter Regions, Genetic

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