Interconnection of competence, stress and CiaR regulons in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Competence triggers stationary phase autolysis of ciaR mutant cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1071-1086

  Dagkessamanskaia, Adilia ^a   Moscoso, Miriam ^a,c   Hénard, Vincent ^a   Guiral, Sébastien ^a   Overweg, Karin ^b   Reuter, Mark ^b   Martin, Bernard ^a   Wells, Jerry ^b   Claverys, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; KINETICS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 1442349821     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03892.x     Document Type: Article

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