Outer membrane proteins of pathogenic spirochetes

PA Cullen, DA Haake, B Adler - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Pathogenic spirochetes are the causative agents of several important diseases including
syphilis, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, swine dysentery, periodontal disease and some forms …

Leptospirosis: pathogenesis, immunity, and diagnosis

RUM Palaniappan, S Ramanujam… - Current opinion in …, 2007‏ - journals.lww.com
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Genome Sequence of the Saprophyte Leptospira biflexa Provides Insights into the Evolution of Leptospira and the Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis

M Picardeau, DM Bulach, C Bouchier, RL Zuerner… - PloS one, 2008‏ - journals.plos.org
Leptospira biflexa is a free-living saprophytic spirochete present in aquatic environments.
We determined the genome sequence of L. biflexa, making it the first saprophytic Leptospira …

Lipoprotein computational prediction in spirochaetal genomes

JC Setubal, M Reis, J Matsunaga… - Microbiology, 2006‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
Lipoproteins are of great interest in understanding the molecular pathogenesis of
spirochaetes. Because spirochaete lipobox sequences exhibit more plasticity than those of …

Surfaceome of Leptospira spp

PA Cullen, X Xu, J Matsunaga, Y Sanchez… - Infection and …, 2005‏ - journals.asm.org
The identification of the subset of outer membrane proteins exposed on the surface of a
bacterial cell (the surfaceome) is critical to understanding the interactions of bacteria with …

Molecular evolution and mosaicism of leptospiral outer membrane proteins involves horizontal DNA transfer

DA Haake, MA Suchard, MM Kelley… - Journal of …, 2004‏ - journals.asm.org
Leptospires belong to a genus of parasitic bacterial spirochetes that have adapted to a
broad range of mammalian hosts. Mechanisms of leptospiral molecular evolution were …

Leptospirosis vaccines

Z Wang, L **, A Węgrzyn - Microbial cell factories, 2007‏ - Springer
Leptospirosis is a serious infection disease caused by pathogenic strains of the Leptospira
spirochetes, which affects not only humans but also animals. It has long been expected to …

Characterization of the Outer Membrane Proteome of Leptospira interrogans Expressed during Acute Lethal Infection

JE Nally, JP Whitelegge, S Bassilian… - Infection and …, 2007‏ - journals.asm.org
Pathogenic Leptospira species adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions during
disease transmission and infection. While the proteome of in vitro cultivated Leptospira has …

Evaluation of Leptospira interrogans knockdown mutants for LipL32, LipL41, LipL21, and OmpL1 proteins

LGV Fernandes, AF Teixeira… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Introduction Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by pathogenic and virulent
species of the genus Leptospira, whose pathophysiology and virulence factors remain …

Recombinant vaccines against leptospirosis

OA Dellagostin, AA Grassmann, DD Hartwig… - Human …, 2011‏ - Taylor & Francis
Leptospirosis is an important neglected infectious disease that occurs in urban
environments, as well as in rural regions worldwide. Rodents, the principal reservoir hosts of …