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Nitrosative damage to free and zinc‐bound cysteine thiols underlies nitric oxide toxicity in wild‐type Borrelia burgdorferi
12 May 2011
Abstract excerpt
Borrelia burgdorferi encounters potentially harmful reactive nitrogen species (RNS) throughout its infective cycle. In this study, diethylamine NONOate (DEA/NO) was used to characterize the lethal effects of RNS on B. burgdorferi. RNS produce a variety of DNA lesions in a broad spectrum of microbial pathogens; however, levels of the DNA deamination product, deoxyinosine, and the numbers of apurinic/apyrimidinic...
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