Peptide Uptake Is Essential for Borrelia burgdorferi Viability and Involves Structural and Regulatory Complexity of its Oligopeptide Transporter

Metabolism Shapes the Cell

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Interaction of the Lyme disease spirochete with its tick vector

(2016) Melissa J. Caimano et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Global Tn-seq analysis of carbohydrate utilization and vertebrate infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2016) Erin B. Troy et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete: making a living as a stealth pathogen

(2016) Justin D. Radolf et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules

(2016) Haim Ashkenazy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

(2016) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

You Are What You Eat: Metabolic Control of Bacterial Division

(2016) Leigh G. Monahan et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Multienzyme degradation of host serum albumin in ticks

(2016) Daniel Sojka et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Function of the Borrelia burgdorferi FtsH Homolog Is Essential for Viability both In Vitro and In Vivo and Independent of HflK/C

(2016) Chen-Yi Chu et al.   mBio

Phosphoenolpyruvate Phosphotransferase System Components Modulate Gene Transcription and Virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2015) Bijay K. Khajanchi et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Cyclic di-GMP Modulates Gene Expression in Lyme Disease Spirochetes at the Tick-Mammal Interface To Promote Spirochete Survival during the Blood Meal and Tick-to-Mammal Transmission

(2015) Melissa J. Caimano et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Characterization of the RelBbu Regulon in Borrelia burgdorferi Reveals Modulation of Glycerol Metabolism by (p)ppGpp

(2015) Julia V. Bugrysheva et al.   PLoS One

The Borrelia burgdorferi RelA/SpoT Homolog and Stringent Response Regulate Survival in the Tick Vector and Global Gene Expression during Starvation

(2015) Dan Drecktrah et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

(2014) Radha Iyer et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Deciphering key features in protein structures with the new ENDscript server

(2014) Xavier Robert et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

SWISS-MODEL: modelling protein tertiary and quaternary structure using evolutionary information

(2014) Marco Biasini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Regulation of Endothelial-Specific Transgene Expression by the LacI Repressor Protein In Vivo

(2014) Susan K. Morton et al.   PLoS One

Feast or famine: the host-pathogen battle over amino acids

(2013) Yanjia J. Zhang et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Study of the Response Regulator Rrp1 Reveals Its Regulatory Role in Chitobiose Utilization and Virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2013) Ching Wooen Sze et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Understanding Barriers to Borrelia burgdorferi Dissemination during Infection Using Massively Parallel Sequencing

(2013) Erin B. Troy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Borrelia burgdorferi HtrA may promote dissemination and irritation

(2013) Frank C. Gherardini   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Borrelia burgdorferi BbHtrA degrades host ECM proteins and stimulates release of inflammatory cytokinesin vitro

(2013) Theresa M. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

PATRIC, the bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource

(2013) Alice R. Wattam et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Development of a host blood meal database: de novo sequencing of hemoglobin from nine small mammals using mass spectrometry

(2012) Ünige A. Laskay et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Borrelia burgdorferi malQmutants utilize disaccharides and traverse the enzootic cycle

(2012) Laura L. Hoon-Hanks et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rrp2, a Prokaryotic Enhancer-Like Binding Protein, Is Essential for Viability of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2012) A. M. Groshong et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Of ticks, mice and men: understanding the dual-host lifestyle of Lyme disease spirochaetes

(2012) Justin D. Radolf et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Analysis of an Ordered, Comprehensive STM Mutant Library in Infectious Borrelia burgdorferi: Insights into the Genes Required for Mouse Infectivity

(2012) Tao Lin et al.   PLoS One

Borrelia burgdorferi Requires the Alternative Sigma Factor RpoS for Dissemination within the Vector during Tick-to-Mammal Transmission

(2012) Star M. Dunham-Ems et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Hybrid Histidine Kinase Hk1 Is Part of a Two-Component System That Is Essential for Survival of Borrelia burgdorferi in Feeding Ixodes scapularis Ticks

(2011) Melissa J. Caimano et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Escherichia coli Peptide Binding Protein OppA Has a Preference for Positively Charged Peptides

(2011) M.M. Klepsch et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The peptide transport system Opt is involved in both nutrition and environmental sensing during growth of Lactococcus lactis in milk

(2011) M. Lamarque et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Cyclic di-GMP is Essential for the Survival of the Lyme Disease Spirochete in Ticks

(2011) Ming He et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A structural classification of substrate-binding proteins

(2010) Ronnie P.-A. Berntsson et al.   FEBS LETTERS

The global nutritional regulator CodY is an essential protein in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Stéphanie Caymaris et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for the functional annotation of proteins

(2010) A. Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Borrelia burgdorferi Has Minimal Impact on the Lyme Disease Reservoir Host Peromyscus leucopus

(2010) Lisa E. Schwanz et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Niche Partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the Same Tick Vector and Mammalian Reservoir Species

(2009) Alan G. Barbour et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

The Elastic Basis for the Shape of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2009) Christopher Dombrowski et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The structural basis for peptide selection by the transport receptor OppA

(2009) Ronnie P-A Berntsson et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Amino acid biosynthesis deficiency in bacteria associated with human and animal hosts

(2009) Xue-Jie Yu et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Borrelia burgdorferi bba74 Is Expressed Exclusively during Tick Feeding and Is Regulated by Both Arthropod- and Mammalian Host-Specific Signals

(2009) V. B. Mulay et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Cryo-Electron Tomography Elucidates the Molecular Architecture of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

(2009) J. Izard et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Rrp1, a cyclic-di-GMP-producing response regulator, is an important regulator ofBorrelia burgdorfericore cellular functions

(2009) Elizabeth A. Rogers et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Selenomethionine incorporation in proteins expressed inLactococcus lactis

(2009) Ronnie P.-A. Berntsson et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Transcriptional interplay among the regulators Rrp2, RpoN and RpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi

(2008) Z. Ouyang et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The Genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the Agent of Deadly Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever, Is a Degraded Subset of Tick-Borne Borrelia duttonii

(2008) Magali Lescot et al.   PLoS Genetics