PMID:8434412
| Citation |
Reeves, P (1993) Evolution of Salmonella O antigen variation by interspecific gene transfer on a large scale. Trends Genet. 9:17-22 |
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| Abstract |
The O antigen is a bacterial surface polysaccharide made up of repeats of a short oligosaccharide. There are about 60 forms of O antigen in Salmonella, and genetic analysis indicates that these were acquired by interspecific gene transfer. |
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PubMed Online version:10.1016/0168-9525(93)90067-R |
| Keywords |
Antigenic Variation/genetics; Antigens, Bacterial/chemistry; Antigens, Bacterial/genetics; Carbohydrate Sequence; Genes, Bacterial; Molecular Sequence Data; Multigene Family; Polymorphism, Genetic; Salmonella/genetics; Salmonella/immunology; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Transfection |
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