Relapsing fever spirochaetes produce a serine protease that provides resistance to oxidative stress and killing by neutrophils

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 710-722

  Guyard, Cyril ^a   Battisti, James M ^a,b   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Schrumpf, Merry E ^a   Whitney, Adeline R ^a   Krum, Jonathan G ^a,c   Porcella, Stephen F ^a   Rosa, Patricia A ^a   Deleo, Frank R ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c San Juan Campus ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; BORRELIA TURICATAE; CELL DENSITY; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHAETA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTROPHILS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RELAPSING FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRULENCE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; BORRELIA TURICATAE; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 33645822747     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05122.x     Document Type: Article

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