Mini-review: Strategies for Variation and Evolution of Bacterial Antigens
Across the eubacteria, antigenic variation has emerged as a strategy to evade host immunity. However, phenotypic variation in some of these antigens also allows the bacteria to exploit variable host niches as well. The specific mechanisms are not shared-derived characters although there is considera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037015000343 |