Crystal structure of the infectious phenotype-associated outer surface protein BBA66 from the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-68

  Brangulis, Kalvis ^a,b   Petrovskis, Ivars ^a   Kazaks, Andris ^a   Tars, Kaspars ^a,c   Ranka, Renate ^a,b  

^a LATVIAN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE   (Latvia)

^b RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Homologous proteins; Ixodes ticks; Lyme borreliosis; Outer surface proteins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BBA64; PROTEIN BBA66; PROTEIN BBA73; PROTEIN CSPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BBA66 PROTEIN, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IXODES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84888322111     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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