Article
Characterization of genetic exchanges between various highly divergent tbpBs, having occurred in Neisseria meningitidis.
Gene - 16 Feb 1998
Legrain M, Rokbi B, Villeval D, Jacobs E
Abstract excerpt
Transferrin-binding protein B (TbpB) from Neisseria is an outer membrane-associated extracellular protein involved in iron capture during bacterial infection. The tbpB genes display extensive divergences throughout the open reading frame (ORF) that have presumably been selected under the pressure...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Iron-Binding Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Open Reading Frames
- Receptors, Transferrin
- Recombination, Genetic
- Sequence Alignment
- Transferrin-Binding Protein B
- Transferrin-Binding Proteins