Interdependence of environmental factors influencing reciprocal patterns of gene expression in virulent Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1470-1479

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Goldberg, Martin S ^a   Popova, Taissia G ^a   Schoeler, George B ^b   Wikel, Stephen K ^b   Hagman, Kayla E ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE VACCINES; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033778628     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02104.x     Document Type: Article

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