Protein Serine/Threonine Kinase StkP Positively Controls Virulence and Competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2434-2437

  Echenique, Jose ^a,c   Kadioglu, Aras ^b   Romao, Susana ^a   Andrew, Peter W ^b   Trombe, Marie Claude ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN STKP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMDCDE GENE; COMPETENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUNG; MICE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1842431057     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2434-2437.2004     Document Type: Article

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