Article
Differential posttranslational processing confers intraspecies variation of a major surface lipoprotein and a macrophage-activating lipopeptide of Mycoplasma fermentans.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1999
Calcutt M J, Kim M F, Karpas A B, Mühlradt P F, Wise K S
Abstract excerpt
The malp gene of Mycoplasma fermentans is shown to occur in single copy but to encode two discrete translated forms of lipid-modified surface protein that can be differentially expressed on isolates within this species: MALP-2, a 14-amino-acid (2-kDa) lipopeptide with potent macrophage-stimulator...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Lipopeptides
- Lipoproteins
- Macrophages
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycoplasma fermentans
- Oligopeptides