Rrp2, a prokaryotic enhancer-like binding protein, is essential for viability of Borrelia burgdorferi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3336-3342

  Groshong, Ashley M ^a   Gibbons, Nora E ^a   Yang, X Frank ^b   Blevins, Jon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RRP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84864004746     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00253-12     Document Type: Article

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