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Weitzman CL, Tillett RL, Sandmeier FC, Tracy CR, Alvarez-Ponce D. High quality draft genome sequence of Mycoplasma testudineum strain BH29 T, isolated from the respiratory tract of a desert tortoise. Stand Genomic Sci 2018; 13:9. [PMID: 29682170 PMCID: PMC5896096 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-018-0309-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Mycoplasma testudineum is one of the pathogens that can cause upper respiratory tract disease in desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii. We sequenced the genome of M. testudineum BH29T (ATCC 700618T = MCCM 03231T), isolated from the upper respiratory tract of a Mojave desert tortoise with upper respiratory tract disease. The sequenced draft genome, organized in 25 scaffolds, has a length of 960,895 bp and a G + C content of 27.54%. A total of 788 protein-coding sequences, six pseudogenes and 35 RNA genes were identified. The potential presence of cytadhesin-encoding genes is investigated. This genome will enable comparative genomic studies to help understand the molecular bases of the pathogenicity of this and other Mycoplasma species.
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- Søren A Ladefoged
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology University of Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Biochemistry University Hospital of Aarhus, Denmark
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Isolation and characterization of P1 adhesin, a leg protein of the gliding bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J Bacteriol 2010; 193:715-22. [PMID: 21097617 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00796-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a pathogen causing human pneumonia, binds to solid surfaces at its membrane protrusion and glides by a unique mechanism. In this study, P1 adhesin, which functions as a "leg" in gliding, was isolated from mycoplasma culture and characterized. Using gel filtration, blue-native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE), and chemical cross-linking, the isolated P1 adhesin was shown to form a complex with an accessory protein named P90. The complex included two molecules each of P1 adhesin and P90 (protein B), had a molecular mass of about 480 kDa, and was observed by electron microscopy to form 20-nm-diameter spheres. Partial digestion of isolated P1 adhesin by trypsin showed that the P1 adhesin molecule can be divided into three domains, consistent with the results from trypsin treatment of the cell surface. Sequence analysis of P1 adhesin and its orthologs showed that domain I is well conserved and that a transmembrane segment exists near the link between domains II and III.
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Montagnier L, Aïssa J, Ferris S, Montagnier JL, Lavalléee C. Electromagnetic signals are produced by aqueous nanostructures derived from bacterial DNA sequences. Interdiscip Sci 2009; 1:81-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s12539-009-0036-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2009] [Revised: 01/05/2009] [Accepted: 01/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hatchel JM, Balish MF. Attachment organelle ultrastructure correlates with phylogeny, not gliding motility properties, in Mycoplasma pneumoniae relatives. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:286-295. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012765-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Jennifer M. Hatchel
- Department of Microbiology, Miami University, 80 Pearson Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Miami University, 80 Pearson Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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Seto S, Kenri T, Tomiyama T, Miyata M. Involvement of P1 adhesin in gliding motility of Mycoplasma pneumoniae as revealed by the inhibitory effects of antibody under optimized gliding conditions. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:1875-7. [PMID: 15716461 PMCID: PMC1064011 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.5.1875-1877.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To examine the participation of P1 adhesin in gliding of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, we examined the effects of an anti-P1 monoclonal antibody on individual gliding mycoplasmas. The antibody reduced the gliding speed and removed the gliding cells from the glass over time in a concentration-dependent manner but had only a slight effect on nongliding cells, suggesting that the conformational changes of P1 adhesin and its displacement are involved in the gliding mechanism.
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- Shintaro Seto
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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Sasaki Y, Ishikawa J, Yamashita A, Oshima K, Kenri T, Furuya K, Yoshino C, Horino A, Shiba T, Sasaki T, Hattori M. The complete genomic sequence of Mycoplasma penetrans, an intracellular bacterial pathogen in humans. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:5293-300. [PMID: 12466555 PMCID: PMC137978 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The complete genomic sequence of an intracellular bacterial pathogen, Mycoplasma penetrans HF-2 strain, was determined. The HF-2 genome consists of a 1 358 633 bp single circular chromosome containing 1038 predicted coding sequences (CDSs), one set of rRNA genes and 30 tRNA genes. Among the 1038 CDSs, 264 predicted proteins are common to the Mycoplasmataceae sequenced thus far and 463 are M.penetrans specific. The genome contains the two-component system but lacks the essential cellular gene, uridine kinase. The relatively large genome of M.penetrans HF-2 among mycoplasma species may be accounted for by both its rich core proteome and the presence of a number of paralog families corresponding to 25.4% of all CDSs. The largest paralog family is the p35 family, which encodes surface lipoproteins including the major antigen, P35. A total of 44 genes for p35 and p35 homologs were identified and 30 of them form one large cluster in the chromosome. The genetic tree of p35 paralogs suggests the occurrence of dynamic chromosomal rearrangement in paralog formation during evolution. Thus, M.penetrans HF-2 may have acquired diverse repertoires of antigenic variation-related genes to allow its persistent infection in humans.
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- Yuko Sasaki
- Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1, Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kenri T, Taniguchi R, Sasaki Y, Okazaki N, Narita M, Izumikawa K, Umetsu M, Sasaki T. Identification of a new variable sequence in the P1 cytadhesin gene of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: evidence for the generation of antigenic variation by DNA recombination between repetitive sequences. Infect Immun 1999; 67:4557-62. [PMID: 10456900 PMCID: PMC96778 DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4557-4562.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytadhesin P1 gene with novel nucleotide sequence variation has been identified. Four clinical strains of M. pneumoniae were found to carry this type of P1 gene. This new P1 gene is similar to the known group II P1 genes but possesses novel sequence variation of approximately 300 bp in the RepMP2/3 region. The position of the new variable region is distant from the previously reported variable regions known to differ between group I and II P1 genes. Two sequences closely homologous to this new variable region were found within the repetitive sequences outside the P1 gene of the M. pneumoniae M129 genome. This suggests that the new P1 gene was generated by DNA recombination between repetitive sequences and the P1 gene locus. The finding of this new type of P1 gene supports the hypothesis that the repetitive sequences of the M. pneumoniae genome serve as a reservoir to generate antigenic variation of the cytadhesin P1 gene.
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MESH Headings
- Adhesins, Bacterial/genetics
- Adhesins, Bacterial/immunology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Bacterial/genetics
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- DNA, Bacterial
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae/genetics
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae/immunology
- Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/microbiology
- Recombination, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- T Kenri
- Department of Safety Research on Biologics, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.
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Fletcher J, Wayadande A, Melcher U, Ye F. The phytopathogenic mollicute-insect vector interface: a closer look. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1998; 88:1351-1358. [PMID: 18944839 DOI: 10.1094/phyto.1998.88.12.1351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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ABSTRACT Spiroplasma citri, transmitted by phloem-feeding leafhoppers, moves from the gut lumen through the gut wall, hemolymph, and salivary glands and multiplies in insect tissues. Nontransmissible lines were deficient in their ability to cross these barriers. Molecular analysis revealed extensive chromosomal rearrangements between the transmissible and nontransmissible spiroplasma lines including a large chromosomal inversion and deletions of about 10 kb at each inversion border. One open reading frame of the deleted region, cloned from the transmissible strain BR3-3X, encodes an integral membrane protein of 58 kDa that shares limited sequence similarity with major adhesin proteins of two zoopathogenic mycoplasmas. Adhesion of spiroplasmas to cultured leafhopper cells was inhibited by proteases, suggesting that adherence to host cells is mediated by spiroplasma membrane protein(s). A hypothetical model for insect transmission of phytopathogenic mollicutes is presented.
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The recent sequencing of the entire genomes of Mycoplasma genitalium and M. pneumoniae has attracted considerable attention to the molecular biology of mycoplasmas, the smallest self-replicating organisms. It appears that we are now much closer to the goal of defining, in molecular terms, the entire machinery of a self-replicating cell. Comparative genomics based on comparison of the genomic makeup of mycoplasmal genomes with those of other bacteria, has opened new ways of looking at the evolutionary history of the mycoplasmas. There is now solid genetic support for the hypothesis that mycoplasmas have evolved as a branch of gram-positive bacteria by a process of reductive evolution. During this process, the mycoplasmas lost considerable portions of their ancestors' chromosomes but retained the genes essential for life. Thus, the mycoplasmal genomes carry a high percentage of conserved genes, greatly facilitating gene annotation. The significant genome compaction that occurred in mycoplasmas was made possible by adopting a parasitic mode of life. The supply of nutrients from their hosts apparently enabled mycoplasmas to lose, during evolution, the genes for many assimilative processes. During their evolution and adaptation to a parasitic mode of life, the mycoplasmas have developed various genetic systems providing a highly plastic set of variable surface proteins to evade the host immune system. The uniqueness of the mycoplasmal systems is manifested by the presence of highly mutable modules combined with an ability to expand the antigenic repertoire by generating structural alternatives, all compressed into limited genomic sequences. In the absence of a cell wall and a periplasmic space, the majority of surface variable antigens in mycoplasmas are lipoproteins. Apart from providing specific antimycoplasmal defense, the host immune system is also involved in the development of pathogenic lesions and exacerbation of mycoplasma induced diseases. Mycoplasmas are able to stimulate as well as suppress lymphocytes in a nonspecific, polyclonal manner, both in vitro and in vivo. As well as to affecting various subsets of lymphocytes, mycoplasmas and mycoplasma-derived cell components modulate the activities of monocytes/macrophages and NK cells and trigger the production of a wide variety of up-regulating and down-regulating cytokines and chemokines. Mycoplasma-mediated secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-1 (IL-1), and IL-6, by macrophages and of up-regulating cytokines by mitogenically stimulated lymphocytes plays a major role in mycoplasma-induced immune system modulation and inflammatory responses.
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- S Razin
- Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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Goh MS, Gorton TS, Forsyth MH, Troy KE, Geary SJ. Molecular and biochemical analysis of a 105 kDa Mycoplasma gallisepticum cytadhesin (GapA). MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 11):2971-2978. [PMID: 9846732 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-11-2971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The identification of a gene (gapA) from Mycoplasma gallisepticum with homology to the P1 cytadherence gene of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is reported. The gapA gene is a 2895 bp ORF encoding a protein with a molecular mass of 105 kDa. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the gapA gene revealed 45% homology to the M. pneumoniae P1 gene, 46% homology to the Mycoplasma genitalium MgPa gene and 47% homology to the Mycoplasma pirum P1-like protein gene. It has a 64 mol % A+T content compared to 46, 60 and 72 mol % respectively for the P1, MgPa and the P1-like protein genes. As with the P1 and MgPa genes, gapA is a central gene in a multi-gene operon, but unlike the P1 and MgPa genes, there is only a single copy of gapA in the genome. GapA is a trypsin-sensitive surface-exposed protein. Chicken tracheal-ring inhibition-of-attachment assays, using anti-GapA Fab fragments, resulted in 64% inhibition of attachment. These results indicated that GapA plays a role in cytadherence of M. gallisepticum to host cells.
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- M S Goh
- Department of Pathobiology, U-89, 61 N Eagleville Rd, University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT 06269-3089,USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, U-89, 61 N Eagleville Rd, University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT 06269-3089,USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, U-89, 61 N Eagleville Rd, University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT 06269-3089,USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, U-89, 61 N Eagleville Rd, University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT 06269-3089,USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, U-89, 61 N Eagleville Rd, University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT 06269-3089,USA
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Hnatow LL, Keeler CL, Tessmer LL, Czymmek K, Dohms JE. Characterization of MGC2, a Mycoplasma gallisepticum cytadhesin with homology to the Mycoplasma pneumoniae 30-kilodalton protein P30 and Mycoplasma genitalium P32. Infect Immun 1998; 66:3436-42. [PMID: 9632619 PMCID: PMC108366 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.7.3436-3442.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/1997] [Accepted: 04/21/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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A second cytadhesin-like protein, MGC2, was identified in the avian respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The 912-nucleotide mgc2 gene encodes a 32.6-kDa protein with 40.9 and 31.4% identity with the M. pneumoniae P30 and M. genitalium P32 cytadhesins, respectively. Functional studies with reverse transcription-PCR, immunoblotting, double-sided immunogold labeling, and attachment inhibition assays demonstrated homology to the human mycoplasmal P30 and P32 cytadhesins. These findings suggest that there is a family of cytadhesin genes conserved among pathogenic mycoplasmas infecting widely divergent hosts.
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- L L Hnatow
- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19717-1303, USA
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Ye F, Melcher U, Fletcher J. Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a membrane protein of Spiroplasma citri. Gene 1997; 189:95-100. [PMID: 9161418 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(96)00840-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A 9.6-kb genomic DNA segment, previously cloned from the phytopathogen Spiroplasma citri BR3-3X [Fletcher et al. (1981) Phytopathology 71, 1073-1080], contained several open reading frames including one encoding a 58-kDa protein. In this work, the transcription initiation site of the P58 mRNA was mapped and part of the gene was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein. A synthetic peptide, whose sequence is included in the fusion protein, was produced. Antibodies against both the fusion protein and the peptide reacted with a 60-kDa protein in a S. citri total protein extract. Hydrophobicity characteristics of this protein and its fractionation into the detergent phase indicated that P58, which shares limited sequence similarity with the adhesin of Mycoplasma hominis and the attachment protein of M. genitalium, is an integral membrane protein.
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- F Ye
- Department of Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078, USA
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Although mycoplasmas lack cell walls, they are in many respects similar to the gram-positive bacteria with which they share a common ancestor. The molecular biology of mycoplasmas is intriguing because the chromosome is uniquely small (< 600 kb in some species) and extremely A-T rich (as high as 75 mol% in some species). Perhaps to accommodate DNA with a lower G + C content, most mycoplasmas do not have the "universal" genetic code. In these species, TGA is not a stop codon; instead it encodes tryptophan at a frequency 10 times greater than TGG, the usual codon for this amino acid. Because of the presence of TGA codons, the translation of mycoplasmal proteins terminates prematurely when cloned genes are expressed in other eubacteria, such as Escherichia coli. Many mycoplasmas possess strikingly dynamic chromosomes in which high-frequency changes result from errors in DNA repair or replication and from highly active recombination systems. Often, high-frequency changes in the mycoplasmal chromosome are associated with antigenic and phase variation, which regulate the production of factors critical to disease pathogenesis.
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- K Dybvig
- Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA
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Reddy SP, Rasmussen WG, Baseman JB. Molecular cloning and characterization of an adherence-related operon of Mycoplasma genitalium. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:5943-51. [PMID: 7592348 PMCID: PMC177423 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.20.5943-5951.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Adhesins and adhesin-related accessory proteins of pathogenic mycoplasmas are required for cytadherence and the subsequent development of disease pathology. The classic example has been Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes primary atypical pneumonia in humans. Mutants of M. pneumoniae defective in adhesins (P1 and P30) or in adherence-accessory proteins (HMW1 through HMW4) are unable to colonize host tissues and are avirulent. Mycoplasma genitalium, implicated in nongonococcal, nonchlamydial urethritis, pneumonia, arthritis, and AIDS progression, was found to encode a 140-kDa adhesin that shared both DNA and protein sequence similarities with P1, a major adhesin of M. pneumoniae. In this report, we show that M. genitalium possesses additional homolog sequences to well-characterized adherence-related genes and proteins of M. pneumoniae. The M. genitalium homologs are designated P32 and P69 and correspond to P30 and HMW3 of M. pneumoniae, respectively (J. B. Baseman, p. 243-259, in S. Rottem and I. Kahane, ed., Subcellular biochemistry, vol. 20. Mycoplasma cell membranes, 1993, and D. C. Krause, D. K. Leith, R. M. Wilson, and J. B. Baseman, Infect. Immun. 35:809-817, 1982). Interestingly, the operon-like organizations of P32 and P69 in the M. genitalium genome are similar to the organizations of P30 and HMW3 genes of M. pneumoniae, suggesting that the conservation of these adherence-related genes and proteins might have occurred through horizontal gene transfer events originating from an ancestral gene family.
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- S P Reddy
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284-7758, USA
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Rosengarten R, Levisohn S, Yogev D. A 41-kDa variable surface protein ofMycoplasma gallisepticumhas a counterpart inMycoplasma imitansandMycoplasma iowae. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1995. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07820.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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