Cloning and expression of the Borrelia burgdorferi lon gene

Gene

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 137-141

  Cloud, Joann L ^a,b   Marconi, Richard T ^c   Eggers, Christian H ^d   Garon, Claude F ^b   Tilly, Kit ^b   Samuels, D Scott ^b,d  

^a Magic Valley Regional Med Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP dependent protease; lpxA; Lyme disease; Temperature sensitive mutant

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEASE LA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030878617     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00196-0     Document Type: Article

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