A manganese transporter, BB0219 (BmtA), is required for virulence by the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3449-3454

  Ouyang, Zhiming ^a   He, Ming ^b   Oman, Tara ^b   Yang, X Frank ^b   Norgard, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal transport; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; EDETIC ACID; MANGANESE; PROTEIN BMTA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TICK; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LYME DISEASE; MANGANESE; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 62549151384     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812999106     Document Type: Article

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