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Molecular evolution of bacterial cell-surface proteins
C R Goward1, M D Scawen, J P Murphy
1Division of Biotechnology, PHLS Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
The cell-surface proteins of the infective bacteria Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are probably involved in the process of infection. These proteins share many features including secretion signal peptides, cell-wall spanning regions, membrane anchor domains and repeated domains of various functions. These common features may have evolved by gene duplication and swapping of gene fragments.