DipA, a pore-forming protein in the outer membrane of lyme disease spirochetes exhibits specificity for the permeation of dicarboxylates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Thein, Marcus ^a   Bonde, Mari ^b   Bunikis, Ignas ^b   Denker, Katrin ^a   Sickmann, Albert ^a,c   Bergström, Sven ^b   Benz, Roland ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICARBOXYLATE SPECIFIC PORIN A; PORIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING AFFINITY; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BORRELIA; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII PBI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DICARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84860999626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036523     Document Type: Article

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