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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2022

The Consistent Tick-Vertebrate Infectious Cycle of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Enables Borrelia burgdorferi To Control Protein Expression by Monitoring Its Physiological Status.

Brian Stevenson, Andrew C Krusenstjerna, Tatiana N Castro-Padovani, Christina R Savage, Brandon L Jutras, Timothy C Saylor

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Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Quantitative analyses of interactions between SpoVG and RNA/DNA.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2023
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  12. Quantitative analyses of interactions between SpoVG and RNA/DNA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brian StevensonDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Andrew C KrusenstjernaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Tatiana N Castro-PadovaniDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Christina R SavageDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Brandon L JutrasDepartment of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Timothy C SaylorDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
University of Kentucky · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

ANALYSIS OF BORRELIA BURGDORFERI ERP PROTEINSR01AI044254 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2000 to 2010
$3.1M
Post-transcriptional regulation in Borrelia burgdorferi by the BpuR RNA-binding proteinR21AI139956 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2018 to 2019
$428k
Bpur, a critical regulator of Borrelia burgdorferi infectivityR21AI120602 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2016 to 2017
$408k
Regulation of infection-associated protein expressed by the Lyme disease spirochete DnaA proteinR21AI147139 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2020 to 2021
$407k
Borrelia burdorferi Ebfc regulonR21AI106260 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2013 to 2014
$343k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI044254NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI106260NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI120602NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI139956NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI147139
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, persists in nature by alternatingly cycling between ticks and vertebrates. During each stage of the infectious cycle, B. burgdorferi produces surface proteins that are necessary for interactions with the tick or vertebrate tissues it encounters while also repressing the synthesis of unnecessary proteins. Among these are the Erp surface proteins, which are produced during vertebrate infection for interactions with host plasmin, laminin, glycosaminoglycans, and components of the complement system. Erp proteins are not expressed during tick colonization but are induced when the tick begins to ingest blood from a vertebrate host, a time when the bacteria undergo rapid growth and division. Using the

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Borrelia burgdorferiIxodesLyme DiseaseTicksAnimalsBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsVertebratesBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsBorreliaspirochetes

Identifiers

PMID35380872
PMCPMC9112904
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