Rga is a regulator of adherence and pilus formation in Streptococcus agalactiae

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2319-2327

  Samen, Ulrike ^a   Heinz, Beate ^a   Boisvert, Heike ^a   Eikmanns, Bernhard J ^a   Reinscheid, Dieter J ^a,b   Borges, Frédéric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BONN RHEIN SIEG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN 4; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN BINDING PROTEIN A; GLYCOPROTEIN; PILA PROTEIN; RGA PROTEIN; SRR 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RALP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL LINE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EPITHELIUM CELL; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KERATINS; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PILA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 79961054490     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.044933-0     Document Type: Article

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