Borrelia burgdorferi small lipoprotein Lp6.6 is a member of multiple protein complexes in the outer membrane and facilitates pathogen transmission from ticks to mice

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-125

  Promnares, Kamoltip ^a,b   Kumar, Manish ^a,b   Shroder, Deborah Y ^a,b   Zhang, Xinyue ^a,b   Anderson, John F ^c   Pal, Utpal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN LP6.6; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPIROCHETE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 70350143371     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06853.x     Document Type: Article

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