The diguanylate cyclase, Rrp1, regulates critical steps in the enzootic cycle of the Lyme disease spirochetes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 219-231

  Kostick, Jessica L ^a   Szkotnicki, Lee T ^a   Rogers, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Bocci, Paola ^b   Raffaelli, Nadia ^b   Marconi, Richard T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PROTEIN RRP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; C3H MOUSE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZOONOTIC CYCLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IXODES; LOCOMOTION; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; RODENT DISEASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 79959551165     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07687.x     Document Type: Article

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