Molecular interactions that enable movement of the lyme disease agent from the tick gut into the hemolymph

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Lili ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a,b   Adusumilli, Sarojini ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Narasimhan, Sukanya ^a   Dai, Jianfeng ^a   Zhao, Yang O ^a,b   Fikrig, Erol ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BBE31 PROTEIN; TRE31 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HEMOLYMPH; IN VITRO STUDY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE MIGRATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOGENICITY; TICK;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETALES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOLYMPH; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; TICKS;

EID: 79959827638     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002079     Document Type: Article

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