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SUBMITTER: Long SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC127871 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Long S Wesley SW Zhang Xiao-Feng XF Qi Hai H Standaert Steven S Walker David H DH Yu Xue-Jie XJ
Infection and immunity 20020401 4
The transcriptional activity and allele variation of the 28-kDa outer membrane protein gene (p28) of Ehrlichia chaffeensis were analyzed to determine the mechanism of the antigenic variation of the 28-kDa outer membrane proteins. Reverse transcriptase PCR amplification of mRNA indicated that 16 of the 22 members of the p28 multigene family were transcribed. Amino acid sequence analysis indicated that the p28-19 protein was produced in vitro in the Arkansas strain. The p28-19 gene and its promote ...[more]