Virulence factor regulation and regulatory networks in Streptococcus pyogenes and their impact on pathogen-host interactions

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 224-232

  Kreikemeyer, Bernd ^a   McIver, Kevin S ^b   Podbielski, Andreas ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BINDING FACTOR; INVASIN; MELENGESTROL ACETATE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RAL PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STREPTODORNASE; STREPTOKINASE; STREPTOLYSIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH CURVE; HOST; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0037674820     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00098-2     Document Type: Review

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