The group a streptococcal dipeptide permease (Dpp) is involved in the uptake of essential amino acids and affects the expression of cysteine protease

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1323-1334

  Podbielski, Andreas ^a   Leonard, Bettina A B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIPEPTIDE; PERMEASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

EID: 0031776883     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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