Influences of capsule on cell shape and chain formation of wild-type and pcsB mutants of serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3024-3040

  Barendt, Skye M ^a   Land, Adrian D ^a   Sham, Lok To ^a   Ng, Wai Leung ^a,b   Tsui, Ho Ching T ^a   Arnold, Randy J ^a   Winkler, Malcolm E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; LACTOSE; LACTOYL PEPTIDE; MONOMER; PCSB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MRECD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MREC PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROCAPSULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULON; SEROTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 65549117531     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01505-08     Document Type: Article

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