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ArticleInfection and immunity2004

Sequence analysis of p44 homologs expressed by Anaplasma phagocytophilum in infected ticks feeding on naive hosts and in mice infected by tick attachment.

Suleyman Felek, Sam Telford, Richard C Falco, Yasuko Rikihisa

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Suleyman FelekDepartment of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1093, USA.
Sam Telford
Richard C Falco
Yasuko Rikihisa
The Ohio State University · USFordham University · USTufts University · US

Funding

Comparison of Human Ehrlichiosis Agent GenomesR01AI047885 · NIAID · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RIKIHISA, YASUKO · 2000 to 2010
$3.0M
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 R01 AI047885NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI47407NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI47885
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 44-kDa immunodominant outer membrane proteins (P44 proteins) of Anaplasma phagocytophilum are encoded by the p44 polymorphic multigene family. The present study examined p44 expression and analyzed the cDNA sequences of various p44 transcripts from the spleens and blood of mice infected by the bites of ticks infected with the A. phagocytophilum NTN-1 strain or of naturally infected nymphal ticks and in the salivary glands and midgut tissues of these ticks. A total of 300 p44 cDNAs were subjected to sequence analysis. Of these, 40 distinct p44 species were found, and all of these had orthologs in the A. phagocytophilum HZ strain genome that shared 95 to 100% base sequence identity. The number of unique p44 species expressed in mouse blood was greater than that for mouse spleens. Higher numbers of different p44 transcripts were also expressed in the salivary glands of ticks than in the midgut tissues. Variations in the sequences of the same p44 cDNA species within a single A. phagocytophilum strain and among different strains were concentrated in the conserved regions flanking the central hypervariable region of p44 genes. No mosaic sequences derived from two or more p44 species were found within the p44 hypervariable region. The conservation of the hypervariable region of each p44 cDNA species of A. phagocytophilum in naturally infected ticks and in different geographic isolates suggests that each A. phagocytophilum genome carries a set of p44 paralogs to be expressed. Thus, a large but restricted repertoire of p44 hypervariable sequences exists in A. phagocytophilum strains in the Northeastern United States.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnaplasma phagocytophilumAnimalsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsDNA, ComplementaryMaleMiceMice, Inbred DBAMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPolymerase Chain ReactionSequence AlignmentTick InfestationsTicksBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsDNA, Complementaryp44 protein, Anaplasma phagocytophila

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PMID14742506
PMCPMC321609
OpenAlexW2060540408

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