A Second Allele of eppA in Borrelia burgdorferi Strain B31 Is Located on the Previously Undetected Circular Plasmid cp9-2

AUTOR(ES)

Miller, Jennifer C.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Although sequence analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi isolate B31 was recently declared “complete,” we found that cultures of this strain can contain a novel 9-kb circular plasmid, cp9-2. The newly described plasmid contains both sequence similarities with and differences from the previously identified B31 plasmid cp9-1 (formerly cp9). cp9-1 and cp9-2 each encode a unique allele of EppA, a putative membrane protein synthesized by B. burgdorferi during mammalian infection.

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