NDLI: Surface Protein Variation by Expression Site Switching in the Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsii

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Author	Barbour, Alan G. Carter, Carol J. Sohaskey, Charles D.
Editor	Burns, D. L.
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	Borrelia hermsii, an agent of relapsing fever, undergoes antigenic variation of serotype-specifying membrane proteins during mammalian infections. When B. hermsii is cultivated in broth medium, one serotype, 33, eventually predominates in the population. Serotype 33 has also been found to be dominant in ticks but not in mammalian hosts. We investigated the biology and genetics of two independently derived clonal populations of serotype 33 of B. hermsii. Both isolates infected immunodeficient mice, but serotype 33 cells were limited in number and were only transiently present in the blood. Probes for vsp33, which encodes the serotype-specifying Vsp33 outer membrane protein, revealed that the gene was located on a 53-kb linear plasmid and that there was only one locus for the gene in serotype 33. The vsp33 probe and probes for other variable membrane protein genes showed that expression of Vsp33 was determined at the level of transcription and that when the vsp33 expression site was active, an expression site for other variable proteins was silent. The study confirmed that serotype 33 is distinct from other serotypes of B. hermsii in its biology and demonstrated that B. hermsii can change its major surface protein through switching between two expression sites.
Starting Page	7114
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10985522
e-ISSN	10985522
Journal	Infection and Immunity
Issue Number	12
Volume Number	68
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2000-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Infectious Diseases Parasitology Immunology Microbiology

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