Localized frameshift mutation generates selective, high-frequency phase variation of a surface lipoprotein encoded by a mycoplasma ABC transporter operon.

doi:10.1128/jb.179.12.4013-4022.1997

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Localized frameshift mutation generates selective, high-frequency phase variation of a surface lipoprotein encoded by a mycoplasma ABC transporter operon.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 1997

Theiss P, Wise K S

Abstract excerpt

The wall-less mycoplasmas have revealed unusual microbial strategies for adaptive variation of antigenic membrane proteins exposed during their surface colonization of host cells. In particular, high-frequency mutations affecting the expression of selected surface lipoproteins have been increasin...

Topics

ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
Amino Acid Sequence
Genes, Bacterial
Lipoproteins
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Mycoplasma fermentans
Operon

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