Changes in availability of oxygen accentuate differences in capsular polysaccharide expression by phenotypic variants and clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5430-5439

  Weiser, J N ^a   Bae, D ^a   Epino, H ^a   Gordon, S B ^a   Kapoor, M ^a   Zenewicz, L A ^a   Shchepetov, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSONIN; OXYGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN CPSD; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

EID: 0034874741     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.9.5430-5439.2001     Document Type: Article

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