RpoS Regulates Essential Virulence Factors Remaining to Be Identified in Borrelia burgdorferi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Qilong ^a   Shi, Yanlin ^a   Dadhwal, Poonam ^a   Liang, Fang Ting ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; PROTEIN DBPA; PROTEIN DBPB; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RPOS GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; LYME DISEASE; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 84871649562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053212     Document Type: Article

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