Adapting a diet from sugar to meat: Double-dealing genes of Streptococcus pyogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-259

  Rosch, Jason W ^a   Tuomanen, Elaine ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; SUGAR;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DIET; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTOSE OPERON; MEAT; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; LACTOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 34247380786     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05667.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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