Identification of an ospC operator critical for immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi.

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Timely expression of the outer surface protein C (OspC) is crucial for the pathogenic strategy of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The pathogen abundantly expresses OspC during initial infection when the antigen is required, but downregulates when its presence poses a threat to the spirochetes once the anti-OspC humoral response has developed. Here, we show that a large palindromic sequence...

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