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Genetic Variation of the Borrelia burgdorferi Gene vlsE Involves Cassette-Specific, Segmental Gene Conversion

The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi possesses 15 silent vls cassettes and a vls expression site (vlsE) encoding a surface-exposed lipoprotein. Segments of the silent vls cassettes have been shown to recombine with the vlsE cassette region in the mammalian host, resulting in combinatoria...

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Jing-Ren, Norris, Steven J.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: American Society for Microbiology 1998
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC108404/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9673251
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