Parveen Nikhat, Cornell Kenneth A, Bono James L, Chamberland Christen, Rosa Patricia, Leong John M
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, ICPH Building, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103-2714, USA.
Infect Immun. 2006 May;74(5):3016-20. doi: 10.1128/IAI.74.5.3016-3020.2006.
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.
Bgp是莱姆病螺旋体伯氏疏螺旋体表面定位的糖胺聚糖结合蛋白之一,表现出核苷酶活性。用携带靶向插入bgp且显然保留所有内源性质粒的伯氏疏螺旋体N40突变株感染SCID小鼠,结果显示Bgp对于免疫受损小鼠的定殖并非必需。