The unique paradigm of spirochete motility and chemotaxis

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 349-370

  Charon, Nyles W ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a   Li, Chunhao ^b   Liu, Jun ^c   Miller, Kelly A ^a   Miller, Michael R ^a   Motaleb, Md A ^d   Wolgemuth, Charles W ^e  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia; flagella; Lyme disease; motor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHYL ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE MOTILITY; SWIMMING;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; LOCOMOTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84871275433     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092611-150145     Document Type: Review

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