Antigenic variation in the Lyme spirochete: detailed functional assessment of recombinational switching at vlsE in the JD1 strain of Borrelia burgdorferi
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DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14189
Abstract: Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease and establishes long‐term infection in mammalian hosts. Persistence is promoted by the VlsE antigenic variation system, which generates combinatorial diversity of VlsE through unidirectional, segmental gene… read more here.
Keywords: switching vlse; antigenic variation; recombinational switching; jd1 ... See more keywords