Role of catabolite control protein A in the regulation of intermedilysin production by Streptococcus intermedius

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4012-4021

  Tomoyasu, Toshifumi ^a   Tabata, Atsushi ^a   Hiroshima, Riki ^a   Imaki, Hidenori ^a   Masuda, Sachiko ^a   Whiley, Robert A ^b   Aduse Opoku, Joseph ^b   Kikuchi, Ken ^c   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^c   Nagamune, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; CYTOLYSIN; INTERMEDILYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEINS, BACTERIA; CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; INTERMEDILYSIN PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CCPA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 77956637428     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00113-10     Document Type: Article

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