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

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Title
The chitobiose transporter, chbC, is required for chitin utilization in Borrelia burgdorferi
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BMC Microbiology, January 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-10-21
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Ryan G Rhodes, Janet A Atoyan, David R Nelson

Abstract

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 dimer (chitobiose), and the annotation for several B. burgdorferi genes suggests that this organism may be able to degrade and utilize chitin, a polymer of GlcNAc. We investigated the ability of B. burgdorferi to utilize chitin in the absence of free GlcNAc, and we attempted to identify genes involved in the process. We also examined the role of RpoS, one of two alternative sigma factors present in B. burgdorferi, in the regulation of chitin utilization.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 32 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 12%
Student > Master 4 12%
Other 2 6%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 4 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 45%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 6%
Chemical Engineering 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 5 15%
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