Translocation of Borrelia burgdorferi surface lipoprotein OspA through the outer membrane requires an unfolded conformation and can initiate at the C-terminus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1266-1278

  Schulze, Ryan J ^a,b   Chen, Shiyong ^a   Kumru, Ozan S ^a   Zückert, Wolfram R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL MEMBRANE; EPITOPES; LIPOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 77952816250     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07172.x     Document Type: Article

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