Functional analysis of the quorum-sensing streptococcal invasion locus ( sil)

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Belotserkovsky, Lia ^a   Baruch, Moshe ^a   Peer, Asaf ^a   Dov, Eran ^a   Ravins, Miriam ^a   Mishalian, Inbal ^a   Persky, Merav ^a   Smith, Yoav ^b   Hanski, Emanuel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; SILCR PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; DELETION MUTANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GROUP G STREPTOCOCCUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INVASION LOCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A'; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP G';

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 73549088083     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000651     Document Type: Article

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