The autolytic enzyme lytA of Streptococcus pneumoniae is not responsible for releasing pneumolysin

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 3108-3116

  Balachandran, Priya ^a   Hollingshead, Susan K ^a   Paton, James C ^b   Briles, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; CHOLINE; MITOMYCIN C; PNEUMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLINE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MITOMYCIN; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0035035231     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.10.3108-3116.2001     Document Type: Article

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