Borrelia burgdorferi CheD promotes various functions in chemotaxis and the pathogenic life cycle of the spirochete

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1743-1752

  Moon, Ki Hwan ^a   Hobbs, Gerry ^b   Motaleb, M A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHYL ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CHEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHED PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ISOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CELL MUTANT; CHED GENE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INACTIVATION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; C3H MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TICK; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LYME DISEASE; METHYL-ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TICKS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84971524653     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01347-15     Document Type: Article

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