Borrelia burgdorferi b31 DNA sequences in PCR products
of Alzheimer disease autopsy brain DNA extractions
22 nucleotide sequence from
Borrelia burgdorferi
Flagellin B ORF BBO 147

TGGGAGTTTCTGGTAAGATTAA

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14 nucleotide sequence
from Borrelia burgdorferi
Flagellin B ORF BBO 147

CTCAACAGCCAGCA
21 nucleotide sequence from
Borrelia burgdorferi Flagellin B
ORF BBO 147

GAAGGAGCTCAACAGCCAGCA

Features in this part of subject sequence:
flagellar filament 41 kDa core protein (flaB)

Score = 41.0 bits (44),  Expect = 2e-04
Identities = 22/22 (100%), Gaps = 0/22 (0%)
Strand=Plus/Minus

Query  50      TGGGAGTTTCTGGTAAGATTAA  71
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Sbjct  148523  TGGGAGTTTCTGGTAAGATTAA  148502
Features in this part of subject sequence:
flagellar filament 41 kDa core protein (flaB)

Score = 39.2 bits (42),  Expect = 8e-04
Identities = 21/21 (100%), Gaps = 0/21 (0%)
Strand=Plus/Minus

Query  319     GAAGGAGCTCAACAGCCAGCA  339
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Sbjct  148008  GAAGGAGCTCAACAGCCAGCA  
147988
Human chromosome 11q

7 of 7 Transfections contain between 200 to 241 nucleotides from
chromosome 11q

The actual lengths of the 11q match region is dependent on the individual
lengths of the Transfection sequences;
Maximum Transfection length is 339 bases and this specimen matches
241 bases in the 11 q reference sequence
Shorter Transfection sequences with lengths of approximately 300 bases
demonstrate 100% matches
with the reference 11q sequences but are "truncated" to lengths
dependent on the total Transfection sequence length
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component in the
transfection sequences
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BLASTSearch using tblastx  menu choice for Transfection
DQ132793.1
Demonstrates a contribution of a Plasmid of Borrelia
burgdorferi , Bo126plasmid B0126_lp36 (Accession
CP001567.1) to the 5' end (approximately covering
positions 1-94)   
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Note: The Plasmids of Borrelia species
are subject to genetic changes over
time. Considering the hypothesis that
Borrelia infections in each of the 7
Alzheimer's patients occurred 30 years
or more before they died,it is plausible
to postulate that the nucleotide
sequences of the plasmids underwent
genetic changes which would result in  
partial sequence change diversities as
compared with specimens currently on
file in the NCBI Database
Reference:
Review:
The plasmids of Borrelia burgdorferi: essential
genetic elements of a pathogen

Philip E. Stewart , Rebecca Byram , Dorothee      
Grimm, Kit Tilly, Patricia A. Rosa
Plasmid, 2005,13:1-13
Reference:
Infection and
Immunity,2000,68:1574-86

(Diversities in the Plasmid
families cp32/18 of Borrelia
burgdorferi)
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Additional Data for the nucleotides 1-96
in the DQ132793.1 Transfection Product
Reference:
Molecular Microbiology
2005, 58:625-635

(Genomic plasticity and
mechanisms for gene
reshuffling in Borrelia
burgdorferi)
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Diagram: From
Stewart et al, Plasmid,
2005,53:1-13