THE NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE OF A LINEAR PLASMID OF BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI REVEALS SIMILARITIES TO THOSE OF CIRCULAR PLASMIDS OF OTHER PROKARYOTES

Authors
BARBOUR AG CARTER CJ BUNDOC V HINNEBUSCH J
Citation
Ag. Barbour et al., THE NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE OF A LINEAR PLASMID OF BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI REVEALS SIMILARITIES TO THOSE OF CIRCULAR PLASMIDS OF OTHER PROKARYOTES, Journal of bacteriology, 178(22), 1996, pp. 6635-6639
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of bacteriology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219193
Volume
178
Issue
22
Year of publication
1996
Pages
6635 - 6639
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9193(1996)178:22<6635:TNOALP>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A linear plasmid of Borrelia burgdorferi had 16,927 bp, a G+C content of 23.1%, a relative deficiency of CpG dinucleotides, and open reading frames A to O. The OrfC and OrfE proteins were similar to hypothetica l proteins encoded by circular plasmids of B. burgdorferi. The OrfM an d OrfN proteins were similar to replication proteins of circular plasm ids of other bacteria.