Constitutive competence for genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae caused by mutation of a transmembrane histidine kinase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1035-1045

  Lacks, S A ^a   Greenberg, B ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035167189     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02697.x     Document Type: Article

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