The crystal structures of two salivary cystatins from the tick Ixodes scapularis and the effect of these inhibitors on the establishment of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in a murine model

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 456-470

  Kotsyfakis, Michalis ^a,b   Horka, Helena ^a,c   Salat, Jiri ^a,c   Andersen, John F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN; SIALOSTATIN L; SIALOSTATIN L2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYSTATIN S; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIALOSTATIN L, IXODES SCAPULARIS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CYSTATINS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALIVARY CYSTATINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77954378928     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07220.x     Document Type: Article

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