Complement inhibitor factor H binding to lyme disease spirochetes is mediated by inducible expression of multiple plasmid-encoded outer surface protein E paralogs

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3847-3853

  Alitalo, Antti ^a   Meri, Taru ^a   Lankinen, Hilkka ^a   Seppälä, Ilkka ^a   Lahdenne, Pekka ^a   Hefty, P Scott ^a   Akins, Darrin ^a   Meri, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; ERPA PROTEIN; ERPP PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN E; PROTEIN P21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; COMPLEMENT INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IONIC STRENGTH; LYME DISEASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0036784619     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.7.3847     Document Type: Article

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