Manganese and zinc regulate virulence determinants in borrelia burgdorferi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2743-2752

  Troxell, Bryan ^a   Ye, Meiping ^a,b   Yang, Youyun ^a   Carrasco, Sebastian E ^a   Lou, Yongliang ^b   Frank Yang, X ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MANGANESE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 84879745505     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00507-13     Document Type: Article

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