The HtrA protease of Borrelia burgdorferi degrades outer membrane protein BmpD and chemotaxis phosphatase CheX

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 619-633

  Coleman, James L ^a   Crowley, Jameson T ^a   Toledo, Alvaro M ^a   Benach, Jorge L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; BASIC MEMBRANE PROTEIN D; CASEIN; CHEMOTAXIS PHOSPHATASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HTRABB PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CATALYSIS; CHEMOTAXIS; DELETION MUTANT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYME DISEASE; MICE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84876702079     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12213     Document Type: Article

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