Transcriptional profiling of Borrelia burgdorferi containing a unique bosR allele identifies a putative oxidative stress regulon

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2599-2609

  Hyde, Jenny A ^a   Seshu, J ^a,b   Skare, Jonathan T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BORRELIA OXIDATIVE STRESS REGULATOR PROTEIN; LYSINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH MEASUREMENT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYSINE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 33748807463     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28996-0     Document Type: Article

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