Mapping the Ligand-Binding Region of Borrelia hermsii Fibronectin-Binding Protein

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Brenner, Christiane ^a   Bomans, Katharina ^a   Habicht, Jüri ^a   Simon, Markus M ^a   Wallich, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LIGAND BINDING; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84877034522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063437     Document Type: Article

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