CcpA ensures optimal metabolic fitness of streptococcus pneumoniae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Carvalho, Sandra M ^a   Kloosterman, Tomas G ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^b   Neves, Ana Rute ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; TAGATOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TAGATOSE 6 PHOSPHATE GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FERMENTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80054830887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026707     Document Type: Article

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