The Intergenic Small Non-Coding RNA ittA is Required for Optimal Infectivity and Tissue Tropism in Borrelia burgdorferi
D. Medina-Perez, B. Wager, E. Troy, L. Gao, S. Norris, T. Lin, L. Hu, J. Hyde, M. Lybecker, J. T. Skare
This paper identifies and characterizes ittA, an intergenic sRNA in Borrelia burgdorferi, showing its role in infectivity and tissue tropism through genetic inactivation and transcriptomic/proteomic analyses.
PLOS Pathogens · May 4, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology