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ArticleMolecular microbiology2009

Rrp1, a cyclic-di-GMP-producing response regulator, is an important regulator of Borrelia burgdorferi core cellular functions.

Elizabeth A Rogers, Darya Terekhova, Hong-Ming Zhang, Kelley M Hovis, Ira Schwartz, Richard T Marconi

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers.

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106 citing papers in PubMed, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth A RogersDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Darya Terekhova
Hong-Ming Zhang
Kelley M Hovis
Ira Schwartz
Richard T Marconi
New York Medical College · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

DETERMINANTS OF B BURGDORFERI HEMATOGENOUS DISSEMINATIONR01AI045801 · NIAID · NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI SCHWARTZ, IRA S. · 1999 to 2015
$4.9M
NIAID NIH HHS AI45801NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI045801
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two-component systems (TCS) are universal among bacteria and play critical roles in gene regulation. Our understanding of the contributions of TCS in the biology of the Borrelia is just now beginning to develop. Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease, harbours a TCS comprised of open reading frames (ORFs) BB0419 and BB0420. BB0419 encodes a response regulator designated Rrp1, and BB0420 encodes a hybrid histidine kinase-response regulator designated Hpk1. Rrp1, which contains a conserved GGDEF domain, undergoes phosphorylation and produces the secondary messenger, cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP), a critical signaling molecule in numerous organisms. However, the regulatory role of the Rrp1-Hpk1 TCS and c-di-GMP signaling in Borrelia biology are unexplored. In this study, the distribution, conservation, expression and potential global regulatory capability of Rrp1 were assessed. rrp1 was found to be universal and highly conserved among isolates, co-transcribed with hpk1, constitutively expressed during in vitro cultivation, and significantly upregulated upon tick feeding. Allelic exchange replacement and microarray analyses revealed that the Rrp1 regulon consists of a large number of genes encoded by the core Borrelia genome (linear chromosome, linear plasmid 54 and circular plasmid 26) that encode for proteins involved in central metabolic processes and virulence mechanisms including immune evasion.

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Amino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsBorrelia burgdorferiCyclic GMPGene DeletionGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialGenes, RegulatorMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesisOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRegulonRNA, BacterialSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNABacterial Proteinsbis(3',5')-cyclic diguanylic acidCyclic GMPRNA, Bacterial

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