Mouse skin passage of a Streptococcus pyogenes Tn917 mutant of sagA/pel restores virulence, beta-hemolysis and sagA/pel expression without altering the position or sequence of the transposon

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-10

  Eberhard, Thomas H ^a   Sledjeski, Darren D ^a   Boyle, Michael D P ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOLYSIN S; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PECTATE LYASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE; SAGA PROTEIN, EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIAL WILT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENE CONTROL; KIDNEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLEOTROPHIC EFFECT LOCUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOLYSIN S ASSOCIATED GENE A; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEMOLYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SKIN; VIRULENCE; VIRUS CULTURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSONS;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; SERIAL PASSAGE; SKIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 19044390231     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-1-33     Document Type: Article

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