Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochetes is expressed in humans and induces antibody responses restricted to nondenatured structural determinants.

Document type:: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Article
Author(s):: Rossmann, E; Kitiratschky, V; Hofmann, H; Kraiczy, P; Simon, MM; Wallich, R
Title:: Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochetes is expressed in humans and induces antibody responses restricted to nondenatured structural determinants.
Abstract:: Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 (CRASP-1), the dominant factor H and FHL-1-binding protein of the Lyme disease spirochete B. burgdorferi, is implicated in pathogen persistence and was recently reported to be nonimmunogenic in humans. Here we show that serum samples from Lyme disease patients contain antibodies with exclusive specificity for nondenatured structural determinants of CRASP-1.
Journal title abbreviation:: Infect Immun
Year:: 2006
Journal volume:: 74
Journal issue:: 12
Pages contribution:: 7024-8
Language:: eng
Fulltext / DOI:: doi:10.1128/IAI.01028-06
Pubmed ID:: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17000728
Print-ISSN:: 0019-9567
TUM Institution:: Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie
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