Inter- and intraserotypic variation in the Streptococcus pyogenes Rgg regulon

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-51

  Dmitriev, Alexander V ^a,b   McDowell, Emily J ^a   Chaussee, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Rgg; Streptococcus pyogenes; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; RGG GENE; SEROTYPE; SPY1793 GENE; SPY2040 GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EXOTOXINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULON; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 44649110098     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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