Borrelia burgdorferi infection-associated surface proteins ErpP, ErpA, and ErpC bind human plasminogen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 300-306

  Brissette, Catherine A ^a   Haupt, Katrin ^b   Barthel, Diana ^b   Cooley, Anne E ^a,f   Bowman, Amy ^a   Skerka, Christina ^b   Wallich, Reinhard ^c   Zipfel, Peter F ^b,d   Kraiczy, Peter ^e   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; LYSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN ERPA; PROTEIN ERPC; PROTEIN ERPP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 58449096795     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01133-08     Document Type: Article

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