Molecular and evolutionary analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi 297 circular plasmid-encoded lipoproteins with OspE- and OspF-like leader peptides

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1526-1532

  Akins, Darrin R ^a,b   Caimano, Melissa J ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Cerna, Felix ^a,c   Norgard, Michael V ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c Lovelace Sandia Health Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0033020426     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1526-1532.1999     Document Type: Article

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