The BB0646 protein demonstrates lipase and haemolytic activity associated with Borrelia burgdorferi, the aetiological agent of Lyme disease

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 319-334

  Shaw, Dana K ^a   Hyde, Jenny A ^b   Skare, Jon T ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BB0646 PROTEIN; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HEMOLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPOLYSIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIPASE; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OPERON;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA;

EID: 84855774168     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07932.x     Document Type: Article

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