Role of Streptococcus sanguinis sortase A in bacterial colonization

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 2791-2796

  Yamaguchi, Masaya ^a   Terao, Yutaka ^a   Ogawa, Taiji ^a   Takahashi, Toshihito ^a   Hamada, Shigeyuki ^b   Kawabata, Shigetada ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; LPXTG motif; Sortase; Streptococcus sanguinis; Surface protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYDROXYAPATITE; POLYSTYRENE; SORTASE; SORTASE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPSONIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE DELETION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 33750624336     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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