Comprehensive evaluation of Streptococcus sanguinis cell wall-anchored proteins in early infective endocarditis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4966-4975

  Turner, Lauren Senty ^a   Kanamoto, Taisei ^a,c   Unoki, Takeshi ^a,d   Munro, Cindy L ^a   Wu, Hui ^b   Kitten, Todd ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SORTASE; SRTA ENZYME; SRTB ENZYME; SRTC ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RABBITS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUIS;

EID: 70350752586     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00760-09     Document Type: Article

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