Delineation of species-specific binding properties of the CspZ protein (BBH06) of lyme disease spirochetes: Evidence for new contributions to the pathogenesis of Borrelia spp.

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5272-5281

  Rogers, Elizabeth A ^a   Marconi, Richard T ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for the Study of Biological Complexity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; PROTEIN CSPZ; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIGAND BINDING; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPIROCHETE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 35648980024     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00850-07     Document Type: Article

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