Periplasmic Flagellar Export Apparatus Protein, FliH, Is Involved in Post-Transcriptional Regulation of FlaB, Motility and Virulence of the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia hermsii

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Guyard, Cyril ^a,b,c   Raffel, Sandra J ^d   Schrumpf, Merry E ^d   Dahlstrom, Eric ^d   Sturdevant, Daniel ^d   Ricklefs, Stacy M ^d   Martens, Craig ^d   Hayes, Stanley F ^d   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^d   Hansen, Bryan T ^d   Porcella, Stephen F ^d   Schwan, Tom G ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLAA; PROTEIN FLAB; PROTEIN FLIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MOTILITY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLUM; FLIH GENE; GENE DELETION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STABILITY; RELAPSING FEVER; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84883245007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072550     Document Type: Article

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