Complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi: Structure, function and regulation of gene expression

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 26-34

  Kraiczy, Peter ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Complement; Complement regulators; Immune evasion; Spirochetes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; COMPLEMENT REGULATOR ACQUIRING SURFACE PROTEIN; CSPA PROTEIN; CSPZ PROTEIN; ERPA PROTEIN; ERPC PROTEIN; ERPP PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CSPA GENE; ERP GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

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

EID: 84872603749     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.039     Document Type: Short Survey

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