Fba, a novel fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus pyogenes, promotes bacterial entry into epithelial cells, and the fba gene is positively transcribed under the Mga regulator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-86

  Terao, Yutaka ^a   Kawabata, Shigetada ^a   Kunitomo, Eiji ^a   Murakami, Jumpei ^a   Nakagawa, Ichiro ^a   Hamada, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BINDING PROTEIN; INVASIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0035724292     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02579.x     Document Type: Article

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