Transcriptional analysis of a superoxide dismutase gene of Borrelia burgdorferi

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-42

  Nichols, Tonya L ^a   Whitehouse, Chris A ^a   Austin, Faye E ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme borreliosis; Sod; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SODIUM CYANIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033967440     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00626-6     Document Type: Article

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