Expression of complement factor H binding immunoevasion proteins in Borrelia garinii isolated from patients with neuroborreliosis

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3043-3053

  Alitalo, Antti ^a   Meri, Taru ^a   Comstedt, Pär ^b   Jeffery, Luke ^a,c   Tornberg, Johanna ^a   Strandin, Tomas ^c   Lankinen, Hilkka ^c   Bergström, Sven ^b   Cinco, Marina ^d   Vuppala, Santosh R ^e   Akins, Darrin R ^e   Meri, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C3b; Complement; Factor H; Lyme disease; OspE

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P21;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 27644497569     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200526354     Document Type: Article

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