Glycerol-3-phosphate acquisition in spirochetes: Distribution and biological activity of glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) among Borrelia species

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1346-1356

  Schwan, Tom G ^a,b   Battisti, James M ^a   Porcella, Stephen F ^a   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Schrumpf, Merry E ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^a   Carroll, James A ^a   Stewart, Philip E ^a   Rosa, Patricia ^a   Somerville, Greg A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCEROL KINASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CHICKENS; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; GALLUS GALLUS; SPIROCHAETALES; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 0037315021     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.4.1346-1356.2003     Document Type: Article

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