Mutations in the borrelia burgdorferi flagellar type III secretion system genes fliH and fliI profoundly affect spirochete flagellar assembly, morphology, motility, structure, and cell division

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-13

  Lin, Tao ^a   Gao, Lihui ^a   Zhao, Xiaowei ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Norris, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; FLIH PROTEIN; FLII PROTEIN; METHYLCELLULOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLIH PROTEIN, BACTERIA; FLII PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TRANSPOSON; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FLIH GENE; FLII GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPIROCHETE; TRANSPOSON; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; LYME DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOCOMOTION; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEMS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84936935603     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00579-15     Document Type: Article

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