Strong Positive Selection and Recombination Drive the Antigenic Variation of the PilE Protein of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitidis

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Proteins 100%
• Genes 83%
• Loci 50%
• Gene Conversion 33%
• Neisseria meningitidis 33%
• Evolution 33%
• Nucleotide Sequence 16%
• Mutation 16%
• Antigenic Variation 16%
• Area 16%

Immunology and Microbiology

• Gene 83%
• Evolution 33%
• Conserved Sequence 33%
• Neisseria meningitidis 33%
• Gene Conversion 33%
• Nucleotide Sequence 16%
• Mutation 16%
• Genetic Recombination 16%
• Pilus 16%
• Evolutionary Rate 16%
• Antigenic Variation 16%
• Human Pathogen 16%
• Silent Gene 16%
• Hypervariable Region 16%