Chopping and changing in the microbial world: How mycoplasmas stay alive

Mycoplasmas regularly change their surface proteins to confuse the immune systems of the humans and animals they invade. Recent work in the group of Renate Rosengarten and Rohini Chopra-Dewasthaly at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has revealed surprising new details of the way they do so and at the same time raised important evolutionary questions. The results are published as the cover article in the September issue of the Journal of Bacteriology.

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