The BosR regulatory protein of Borrelia burgdorferi interfaces with the RpoS regulatory pathway and modulates both the oxidative stress response and pathogenic properties of the Lyme disease spirochete

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1344-1355

  Hyde, Jenny A ^a   Shaw, Dana K ^a   Smith III, Roger ^b   Trzeciakowski, Jerome P ^a   Skare, Jon T ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROTEIN BOSR; PROTEIN CDR; PROTEIN NAPA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE REPLICATION; HOMEOSTASIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 72049101202     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06951.x     Document Type: Article

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