The involvement of sortase A in high virulence of STSS-causing Streptococcus suis serotype 2

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-33

  Wang, Changjun ^a,b   Li, Ming ^b,c   Feng, Youjun ^d,e   Zheng, Feng ^b   Dong, Yaqing ^b   Pan, Xiuzhen ^b   Cheng, Gong ^b   Dong, Ruiping ^b   Hu, Dan ^b   Feng, Xiaodan ^b   Ge, Junchao ^b   Liu, Di ^d   Wang, Jing ^b   Cao, Min ^b   Hu, Fuquan ^c   Tang, Jiaqi ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Research Institute for Medicine of Nanjing Command   (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

LPXTG motif; Pathogenicity; Sortase A; Streptococcus suis serotype 2

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LYSOZYME; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SORTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENOME; HEP 2 CELL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE DISEASE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; UMBILICAL VEIN;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 58149313618     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0425-z     Document Type: Article

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