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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2002

Analysis of sequences and loci of p44 homologs expressed by Anaplasma phagocytophila in acutely infected patients.

Quan Lin, Ning Zhi, Norio Ohashi, Harold W Horowitz, Maria E Aguero-Rosenfeld, John Raffalli, Gary P Wormser, Yasuko Rikihisa

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Quan LinDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
Ning Zhi
Norio Ohashi
Harold W Horowitz
Maria E Aguero-Rosenfeld
John Raffalli
Gary P Wormser
Yasuko Rikihisa
The Ohio State University · USOffice of Infectious Diseases · USNew York Medical College · US

Funding

GENE EXPRESSION BY HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS AGR01AI047407 · NIAID · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RIKIHISA, YASUKO · 2000 to 2004
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI047407NIAID NIH HHS R01AI47407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anaplasma phagocytophila is an obligatory intragranulocytic bacterium that causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. Immunodominant 44-kDa outer membrane proteins of A. phagocytophila are encoded by a p44 multigene family. In the present study, expression profiles of p44 genes in the blood of acutely infected patients in the year 2000 were characterized. A single p44 gene was predominantly expressed in peripheral blood leukocytes from one patient, while up to 17 different p44 genes were transcribed without a single majority in the other two patients. The cDNA sequences of the central hypervariable region of several p44 genes were identical among the isolates from the three patients and a 1995 A. phagocytophila isolate. A. phagocytophila was isolated by cell culture from all of the three 2000 patients. Genomic Southern blot analysis of the three 2000 and two 1995 A. phagocytophila isolates with probes specific to the most dominant p44 transcript in each patient showed that the p44 loci in the A. phagocytophila genome were conserved. Analysis of the predicted amino acid sequences of 43 different p44 genes including 19 new sequences found in the present study, revealed that five amino acids were absolutely conserved. The hypervariable region was subdivided into five domains, including three extremely hypervariable central domains. These results suggest that variations in the sequences of p44 are not random but are restricted. Furthermore, several p44 genes are not hypermutatable in nature, based on the conservation of gene sequences and loci among isolates obtained 5 years apart.

Indexed as

Sequence Analysis, DNASequence Homology, Amino AcidAcute DiseaseAmino Acid SequenceAnaplasmaAnaplasmosisBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsConserved SequenceEhrlichiosisGenetic VariationHumansMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyTranscription, GeneticBacterial Outer Membrane Proteinsp44 protein, Anaplasma phagocytophila

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PMID12149362
PMCPMC120678
OpenAlexW1988228816

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