Adhesion determinants of the Streptococcus species

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 370-388

  Moschioni, Monica ^a   Pansegrau, Werner ^a   Barocchi, Michèle A ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLINE BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; GALACTOSYL ALPHA1 4 GALACTOSE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LAMININ BINDING PROTEIN; M LIKE PROTEIN; M PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE ADHESIN A; PROTEIN CNM; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM PILUS; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURFACE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIMBRIA; HOST; MICROBIAL ADHESION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS CRISTATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 77954146591     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2009.00138.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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