Article
Naturally occurring isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which display anomalous serovar properties, express PIA/PIB hybrid porins, deletions in PIB or novel PIA molecules.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 May 1998
Cooke S J, Jolley K, Ison C A, Young H, Heckels J E
Abstract excerpt
The por gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae encodes the Protein I porin responsible for serovar specificity. In this study the por genes have been sequenced from clinical isolates which exhibited anomalous serovar reactivity. One group of 'intermediate' strains differed significantly from both Protein...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Bacterial
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Base Sequence
- Epitopes
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Gonorrhea
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Porins
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Serotyping