Allelic variation in a peptide-inducible two-component system of Streptococcus pneumoniae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-236

  Reichmann, Peter ^a   Hakenbeck, Regine ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Peptide pheromone; Quorum sensing; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034666640     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00340-2     Document Type: Article

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