Adaptive surface variation in mycoplasmas

Mycoplasmas excel as infectious agents, despite their very small genomes. In one mycoplasma species, adaptive flexibility is enhanced by an elegant genetic system that diversifies the membrane surface through a set of variable lipoproteins (Vlps). A family of vlp genes supplies divergent coding sequ...

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Autor principal: Wise, Kim S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8044463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0966-842X(93)90034-O
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description Mycoplasmas excel as infectious agents, despite their very small genomes. In one mycoplasma species, adaptive flexibility is enhanced by an elegant genetic system that diversifies the membrane surface through a set of variable lipoproteins (Vlps). A family of vlp genes supplies divergent coding sequences and undergoes high-frequency mutations, thus creating large repertoires of surface mosaics and structural variants.
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spelling pubmed-71332862020-04-08 Adaptive surface variation in mycoplasmas Wise, Kim S. Trends Microbiol Article Mycoplasmas excel as infectious agents, despite their very small genomes. In one mycoplasma species, adaptive flexibility is enhanced by an elegant genetic system that diversifies the membrane surface through a set of variable lipoproteins (Vlps). A family of vlp genes supplies divergent coding sequences and undergoes high-frequency mutations, thus creating large repertoires of surface mosaics and structural variants. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1993-05 2003-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7133286/ /pubmed/8044463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0966-842X(93)90034-O Text en Copyright © 1993 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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