Release of DNA into the medium by competent Streptococcus pneumoniae: Kinetics, mechanism and stability of the liberated DNA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 783-794

  Moscoso, Miriam ^a,b   Claverys, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN ENDA; PROTEIN LYTA; PROTEIN LYTC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SENSITIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 7644243116     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04305.x     Document Type: Article

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