학술논문
Piliation control mechanisms in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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Article
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; June 1986, Vol. 83 Issue: 11 p3890-3894, 5p
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00278424; 10916490
Abstract
Gonococci (Gc) undergo pilus+ to pilus- "phase transitions" readily in vitro. In the present study we sequenced pilin mRNA from reverting, pilus- Gc by oligonucleotide primer extension and compared these pilin mRNA sequences with those expressed by their pilus+ predecessors and pilus+ revertants. The results suggest that genetic rearrangement within the pilin structural gene can generate defective pilin gene products, resulting in a pilus- phenotype. These pilus- Gc give rise to pilus+ revertants upon reconstitution of their modified pilin gene.