Dual binding specificity of a Borrelia hermsii-associated complement regulator-acquiring surface protein for factor II and plasminogen discloses a putative virulence factor of relapsing fever spirochetes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 7292-7301

  Rossmann, Evelyn ^a   Kraiczy, Peter ^b   Herzberger, Pia ^b   Skerka, Christine ^c   Kirschfink, Michael ^a   Simon, Markus M ^d   Zipfel, Peter F ^c   Wallich, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; COMPLEMENT REGULATOR ACQUIRING SURFACE PROTEIN; FACTOR H RELATED PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN BHCRASP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; COMPLEMENT INHIBITION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 34249797276     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.11.7292     Document Type: Article

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