Identification and Characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Proteins Involved in Infection of the Tick Vector, Ixodes scapularis.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an emerging zoonotic pathogen transmitted by Ixodes scapularis that causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Here, a high throughput quantitative proteomics approach was used to characterize A. phagocytophilum proteome during rickettsial multiplication and identify protei...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Margarita Villar, Nieves Ayllón, Katherine M Kocan, Elena Bonzón-Kulichenko, Pilar Alberdi, Edmour F Blouin, Sabine Weisheit, Lourdes Mateos-Hernández, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Damien F Meyer, Jan Sterba, Marinela Contreras, Nataliia Rudenko, Libor Grubhoffer, Jesús Vázquez, José de la Fuente
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4560377?pdf=render