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ArticleInfection and immunity2011

CsrA modulates levels of lipoproteins and key regulators of gene expression critical for pathogenic mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi.

S L Rajasekhar Karna, Eva Sanjuan, Maria D Esteve-Gassent, Christine L Miller, Mahulena Maruskova, J Seshu

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

S L Rajasekhar KarnaSouth Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA.
Eva Sanjuan
Maria D Esteve-Gassent
Christine L Miller
Mahulena Maruskova
J Seshu
The University of Texas at San Antonio · USTexas Center for Infectious Disease · US

Funding

Borrelia burgdorferi Interactions with Mammalian Host CellsSC1AI078559 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI SESHU, JANAKIRAM · 2007 to 2010
$1.4M
NIAID NIH HHS AI-078559NIAID NIH HHS SC1 AI078559
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) is an RNA binding protein that has been characterized in many bacterial species to play a central regulatory role by modulating several metabolic processes. We recently showed that a homolog of CsrA in Borrelia burgdorferi (CsrA(Bb), BB0184) was upregulated in response to propagation of B. burgdorferi under mammalian host-specific conditions. In order to further delineate the role of CsrA(Bb), we generated a deletion mutant designated ES10 in a linear plasmid 25-negative isolate of B. burgdorferi strain B31 (ML23). The deletion mutant was screened by PCR and Southern blot hybridization, and a lack of synthesis of CsrA(Bb) in ES10 was confirmed by immunoblot analysis. Analysis of ES10 propagated at pH 6.8/37°C revealed a significant reduction in the levels of OspC, DbpA, BBK32, and BBA64 compared to those for the parental wild-type strain propagated under these conditions, while there were no significant changes in the levels of either OspA or P66. Moreover, the levels of two regulatory proteins, RpoS and BosR, were also found to be lower in ES10 than in the control strain. Quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR analysis of total RNA extracted from the parental strain and csrA(Bb) mutant revealed significant differences in gene expression consistent with the changes at the protein level. Neither the csrA(Bb) mutant nor the trans-complemented strain was capable of infection following intradermal needle inoculation in C3H/HeN mice at either 10³ or 10⁵ spirochetes per mouse. The further characterization of molecular basis of regulation mediated by CsrA(Bb) will provide significant insights into the pathophysiology of B. burgdorferi.

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AnimalsBacterial ProteinsBorrelia burgdorferiFemaleGene DeletionGene Expression Regulation, BacterialLipoproteinsLyme DiseaseMiceMice, Inbred BALB CRNA-Binding ProteinsBacterial ProteinsLipoproteinsRNA-Binding Proteins

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PMID21078860
PMCPMC3028860
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