Role of polyamine transport in Streptococcus pneumoniae response to physiological stress and murine septicemia

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 167-172

  Shah, Pratik ^a   Romero, Damian G ^a   Swiatlo, Edwin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC Transporter; Polyamines; PotD; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Stress

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL RNA; CHOLINE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYAMINE TRANSPORT PROTEIN D; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHOLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYAMINES; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 48749108213     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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