Effect of heat shock and mutations in ClpL and ClpP on virulence gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3757-3765

  Kwon, Hyog Young ^a   Kim, Seung Whan ^a   Choi, Moo Hyun ^a   Ogunniyi, A David ^b   Paton, James C ^b   Park, Sin Hee ^a   Pyo, Suhk Neung ^a   Rhee, Dong Kwon ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHAPERONE; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; METHIONINE; PNEUMOLYSIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN CLPL; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; SULFUR 35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLPL GENE; CLPP GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HEAT SHOCK; HOST; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0038649846     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.7.3757-3765.2003     Document Type: Article

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