The chitobiose transporter, chbC, is required for chitin utilization in Borrelia burgdorferi

BACKGROUND: The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is a limited-genome organism that must obtain many of its biochemical building blocks, including N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), from its tick or vertebrate host. GlcNAc can be imported into the cell as a monomer or d...

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Autores principales: Rhodes, Ryan G, Atoyan, Janet A, Nelson, David R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20102636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20102636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-21

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