Conserved mutations in the pneumococcal bacteriocin transporter gene, blpa, result in a complex population consisting of producers and cheaters

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Son, Matthew R ^a   Shchepetov, Mikhail ^b   Adrian, Peter V ^c   Madhi, Shabir A ^c   de Gouveia, Linda ^c   von Gottberg, Anne ^c   Klugman, Keith P ^c,d   Weiser, Jeffrey N ^b   Dawid, Suzanne ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIOCIN; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BLPA GENE; BLPC GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80455168610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00179-11     Document Type: Article

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