title: The p40* adhesin pseudogene of Mycoplasma bovis.
abstract: An analogue of the adhesin gene p40 of Mycoplasma agalactiae was found in Mycoplasma bovis. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the p40* gene in M. bovis revealed the presence of a large deletion involving a frameshift that causes premature truncation of the translated protein, indicating that p40* exists as a pseudogene in M. bovis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, B43A, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Annick
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linden
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mainil
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dizier
authors.forename: Joel B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Baseman
authors.forename: Thirumalai R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.forename: Bénédicte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fleury
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frey
authors.forename: Edy M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Vilei
mesh_terms: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D016368:Frameshift Mutation; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D045682:Mycoplasma bovis / Q000235:genetics*; D011544:Pseudogenes; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D004269:DNA, Bacterial