Cyclic Di-GMP receptor PlzA controls virulence gene expression through RpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 445-452

  He, Ming ^a   Zhang, Jun Jie ^a   Ye, Meiping ^a,b   Lou, Yongliang ^b   Yang, X Frank ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC DI GUANOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; CYCLIC GMP DERIVATIVE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PLZA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND MESSENGER; SPIROCHETE; TICK; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84890820130     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01238-13     Document Type: Article

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