Identification of potential virulence determinants by Himar1 transposition of infectious Borrelia burgdorferi B31

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 6690-6699

  Botkin, Douglas J ^a,b,c   Abbott, April N ^a,c   Stewart, Philip E ^d   Rosa, Patricia A ^d   Kawabata, Hiroki ^e   Watanabe, Haruo ^e   Norris, Steven J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLAR MOTOR SWITH PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN VLSE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DNA VECTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLIG 1 GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GUAB GENE; HIMAR1 GENE; HOST; INFLAMMATION; INOCULATION; LYME DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IMP DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33845501160     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00993-06     Document Type: Article

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