High-frequency intracellular infection and erythrogenic toxin A expression undergo phase variation in M1 group A streptococci

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 157-167

  Cleary, P Patrick ^a   McLandsborough, Lynne ^b   Ikeda, Leo ^a   Cue, David ^a   Krawczak, Jim ^a   Lam, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; HYALURONIC ACID; M PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLONE; COLONY FORMATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; MUTANT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFERASES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRULENCE; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPEA; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0031899956     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00786.x     Document Type: Article

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