Identification and function of the RNA chaperone Hfq in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 622-635

  Lybecker, Meghan C ^a   Abel, Cassandra A ^a   Feig, Andrew L ^c   Samuels, D Scott ^a,b  

^a Division of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHAPERONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HFQ; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 77958605759     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07374.x     Document Type: Article

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