Nitrosative damage to free and zinc-bound cysteine thiols underlies nitric oxide toxicity in wild-type Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 259-273

  Bourret, Travis J ^a   Boylan, Julie A ^a   Lawrence, Kevin A ^a   Gherardini, Frank C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,3 BIS(2 AMINOETHYL) 1 HYDROXY 2 OXOTRIAZENE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYSTEINE THIOL; DEOXYINOSINE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; INTERLEUKIN 8; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS REGULATOR PROTEIN; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

APURINIC SITE; APYRIMIDINIC SITE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA ISOLATION; EXCISION REPAIR; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MUTATION RATE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UVRB GENE; UVRC GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOKINES, CXC; CYSTEINE; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZINC;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 79959554902     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07691.x     Document Type: Article

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