Playing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: combined mechanisms of phase variation in bacteria

• 28 September 2001
• journal article
• review article
• Published by Elsevier
• Vol. 4  (5) , 570-581
• https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-5274(00)00253-8

Abstract

Keywords

• ANTIGENIC VARIATION
• CONTINGENCY GENES
• DNA INVERSION
• GENE CONVERSION
• HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION
• MISMATCH REPAIR
• PHASE VARIATION
• RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION
• SLIPPED-STRAND MISPAIRING
• SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION