Strain-Specific Variation of the Decorin-Binding Adhesin DbpA Influences the Tissue Tropism of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Yi Pin ^a   Benoit, Vivian ^a   Yang, Xiuli ^b,c   Martínez Herranz, Raúl ^a   Pal, Utpal ^b,c   Leong, John M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DCN PROTEIN, HUMAN; DDPA PROTEIN, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DECORIN; DERMATAN SULFATE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; C3H MOUSE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LYME DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; MYOCARDITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TROPISM;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DECORIN; DERMATAN SULFATE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION; MYOCARDITIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TROPISM;

EID: 84905383822     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004238     Document Type: Article

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