LuxS impacts on LytA-dependent autolysis and on competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 333-341

  Romao, Susana ^a   Memmi, Guido ^b   Oggioni, Marco R ^b,c   Trombe, Marie Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 32244442842     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28406-0     Document Type: Article

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