Inactivation of a putative flagellar motor switch protein FliG1 prevents Borrelia burgdorferi from swimming in highly viscous media and blocks its infectivity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1563-1576

  Li, Chunhao ^a   Xu, Hongbin ^a   Zhang, Kai ^a   Liang, Fang Ting ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTEIN FLIG1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLIG PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIG1 GENE; FLIG2 GENE; GENE FUNCTION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VISCOSITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE FUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MURINAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FLAGELLA; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77949392836     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07078.x     Document Type: Article

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