Borrelia burgdorferi RevA antigen binds host fibronectin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2802-2812

  Brissette, Catherine A ^a   Bykowski, Tomasz ^a,b   Cooley, Anne E ^a,c   Bowman, Amy ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Center for Medical Education CEMED Sp Zoo   (Poland)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; HEPARIN; PROTEIN REVA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 67650045748     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00227-09     Document Type: Article

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