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SUBMITTER: Parveen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1459710 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parveen Nikhat N Cornell Kenneth A KA Bono James L JL Chamberland Christen C Rosa Patricia P Leong John M JM
Infection and immunity 20060501 5
Bgp, one of the surface-localized glycosaminoglycan-binding proteins of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, exhibited nucleosidase activity. Infection of SCID mice with B. burgdorferi strain N40 mutants harboring a targeted insertion in bgp and apparently retaining all endogenous plasmids revealed that Bgp is not essential for colonization of immunocompromised mice. ...[more]