Regulation of gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae by response regulator 09 is strain dependent

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1382-1389

  Hendriksen, Wouter T ^a   Silva, Nuno ^b   Bootsma, Hester J ^c   Blue, Clare E ^b   Paterson, Gavin K ^b,e   Kerr, Alison R ^b   De Jong, Anne ^d   Kuipers, Oscar P ^d   Hermans, Peter W M ^a,c   Mitchell, Tim J ^b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33846929087     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01144-06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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