Stage-specific global alterations in the transcriptomes of Lyme disease spirochetes during tick feeding and following mammalian host adaptation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 509-538

  Iyer, Radha ^a   Caimano, Melissa J ^a,b   Luthra, Amit ^a   Axline, David ^a   Corona, Arianna ^a   Iacobas, Dumitru A ^b   Radolf, Justin D ^a,b   Schwartz, Ira ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL RNA; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; ISOPRENOID; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBON UTILIZATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LIPOGENESIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOS GENE; SPIROCHETE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTION; CELL WALL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IXODES; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LYME DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL WALL; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IXODES; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LYME DISEASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE, INBRED C3H; NYMPH; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924598069     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12882     Document Type: Article

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