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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Microbiol Spectr. 2014 Dec;2(6):10.1128/microbiolspec.MDNA3-0038-2014. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.MDNA3-0038-2014

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Properties of the vls locus potentially involved in recombination and regulation of transcription. A. Inverted repeat between vlsE and the vls silent cassettes of B. burgdorferi B31 (48);(S.J. Norris and J.K. Howell, unpublished data). The predicted stem loop structure includes the −35 region of the vlsE promoter. B. G+C content and GC skew of vlsE and the vls silent cassettes in B. burgdorferi B31. C. Lack of conservation of the vls direct repeat sequences in Lyme disease Borrelia suggests a limited role of these regions in vlsE recombination (38). Representative sequences are shown.