The Lyme Disease agent co-opts adiponectin receptor-mediated signaling in its arthropod vector
X. Tang, y. cao, G. Arora, J. Hwang, A. Sajid, C. Brown, S. Mehta, A. Marin-Lopez, Y.-M. Chuang, M.-J. Wu, H. Ma, U. Pal, S. Narasimhan, E. Fikrig
This study identifies a tick metabolic pathway involving ISARL that Borrelia burgdorferi exploits to establish infection, suggesting a mechanism for manipulating host metabolism.
bioRxiv · Sep 13, 2021Microbiology