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The adhesin related 30-kDa protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae exhibits size and antigen variability.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jul 1997
Layh-Schmitt G, Himmelreich R, Leibfried U
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a pathogenic bacterium colonizing epithelial cells of the human respirator tract. Using an erythrocyte binding assay we isolated a cytadsorption negative mutant designated M7 which has lost 12 of a total of 13 repetitive sequences of a proline rich C-terminal region of the adhesin related 30-kDa protein. The truncated adhesin related protein of 22 kDa showed reduced antigenicity compared...
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