Full-Text Paper (PDF): Borrelia burgdorferi Harbors a Transport System Essential for Purine Salvage and Mammalian Infection
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In
the scientific research study "Borrelia burgdorferi Harbors a Transport
System Essential for Purine Salvage and Mammalian Infection" you will
see that in fact the Borrelia Burgdorferi bacteriophages are responsible
for mammalian infection.
Read this: "We now establish that the homologous proteins BBB22 and/or BBB23, encoded on cp26, transport hypoxanthine, adenine, and guanine and are necessary for B. burgdorferi mammalian infection. The bbb22 and/or bbb23 gene product was found to be essential for hypoxanthine uptake."
Read this: "We now establish that the homologous proteins BBB22 and/or BBB23, encoded on cp26, transport hypoxanthine, adenine, and guanine and are necessary for B. burgdorferi mammalian infection. The bbb22 and/or bbb23 gene product was found to be essential for hypoxanthine uptake."
From
the abstract of the same study: "Together, our data establish that
bbb22-23 encode purine permeases critical for B. burgdorferi mammalian
infectivity, suggesting that this transport system may serve as a novel
antimicrobial target for the treatment of Lyme disease."
