MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MYCOPLASMAS
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Microbiology
- Vol. 50 (1), 25-57
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.25
Abstract
Although mycoplasmas lack cell walls, they are in many respects similar to the gram-positive bacteria with which they share a common ancestor. The molecular biology of mycoplasmas is intriguing because the chromosome is uniquely small (Escherichia coli. Many mycoplasmas possess strikingly dynamic chromosomes in which high-frequency changes result from errors in DNA repair or replication and from highly active recombination systems. Often, high-frequency changes in the mycoplasmal chromosome are associated with antigenic and phase variation, which regulate the production of factors critical to disease pathogenesis.Keywords
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