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Journal of Bacteriology, January 2000, p. 207-210, Vol. 182, No. 1
School of Biological Sciences, University of
Surrey, Guildford, GU2 5XH,1 and Centre
for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Salisbury, SP4
OJG,2 United Kingdom
Received 3 August 1999/Accepted 14 October 1999
Phase variation of flagellin gene expression in Campylobacter
coli UA585 was correlated with high-frequency, reversible
insertion and deletion frameshift mutations in a short homopolymeric
tract of thymine residues located in the N-terminal coding region of the flhA gene. Mutation-based phase variation in
flhA may generate functional diversity in the host and environment.
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Localized Reversible Frameshift Mutation in the
flhA Gene Confers Phase Variability to Flagellin Gene
Expression in Campylobacter coli
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