Environmental acidification drives S. pyogenes pilus expression and microcolony formation on epithelial cells in a FCT-dependent manner

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Manetti, Andrea G O ^a   Köller, Thomas ^b   Becherelli, Marco ^a   Buccato, Scilla ^a   Kreikemeyer, Bernd ^b   Podbielski, Andreas ^b   Grandi, Guido ^a   Margarit, Immaculada ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

^b Institute of Medical Microbiology Virology and Hygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN COLLAGEN T ANTIGEN; GLUCOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG EFFECT; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBRONECTINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 78149472287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013864     Document Type: Article

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