Identification of specific chemoattractants and genetic complementation of a Borrelia burgdorferi chemotaxis mutant: Flow cytometry-based capillary tube chemotaxis assay

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1180-1188

  Bakker, Richard G ^a   Li, Chunhao ^a,b   Miller, Michael R ^a   Cunningham, Cynthia ^a   Charon, Nyles W ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI CHEMOTAXIS MUTANTS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; SPECIFIC ATTRACTANTS; SPIROCHETES;

BIOASSAY; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; GROWTH KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA;

CHEA KINASE; CHEA2 PROTEIN; CHITOSAN; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATTRACTANT; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CHEMOTAXIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUCOSE; PHENOTYPE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAPILLARY TUBE; CHEMOTAXIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INCUBATION TIME; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SALIVA; SERUM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TICK; TUBE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; RABBITS; SERUM; TICKS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 33847235021     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01913-06     Document Type: Article

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