Publication Date:
1990-10-26
Description:
Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. The gene for outer surface protein A (OspA) from B. burgdorferi strain N40 was cloned into an expression vector and expressed in Escherichia coli. C3H/HeJ mice actively immunized with live transformed E. coli or purified recombinant OspA protein produced antibodies to OspA and were protected from challenge with several strains of B. burgdorferi. Recombinant OspA is a candidate for a vaccine for Lyme borreliosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fikrig, E -- Barthold, S W -- Kantor, F S -- Flavell, R A -- AI 26815/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- DK-07476/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Oct 26;250(4980):553-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2237407" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Bacterial/immunology
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Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics/*immunology
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Borrelia burgdorferi Group/*immunology
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Cloning, Molecular
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Escherichia coli/genetics/immunology
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Glutathione Transferase
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*Immunization
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Lyme Disease/*prevention & control
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C3H
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
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Recombinant Proteins/immunology
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Transformation, Bacterial
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*Vaccines, Synthetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
