Characterization of two genes, p11 and p5, on the Borrelia burgdorferi 49-kilo base linear plasmid.
A putative operon encoding two Borrelia burgdorferi N40 genes, p11 and p5 was cloned and localized to the 49 kilobase linear plasmid. p11 encodes an 11 kDa protein and p5 encodes a 5 kDa protein. The first 88 nucleotides of p11 have 81% identity with orf5 on a circular plasmid from Borrelia afzelii strain Ip21, suggesting that homologues of these genes may be present in different regions of the B. burgdorferi genome.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8031, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids