Zinc uptake by Streptococcus pneumoniae depends on both AdcA and AdcAII and is essential for normal bacterial morphology and virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 904-916

  Bayle, Lucie ^a,b,c   Chimalapati, Suneeta ^d   Schoehn, Guy ^a,b,c,e   Brown, Jeremy ^d   Vernet, Thierry ^a,b,c   Durmort, Claire ^a,b,c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADCA PROTEIN; ADCAII PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

ADCA GENE; ADCAII GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE MODEL; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ZINC METABOLISM; ZINC TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEPSIS; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80855143685     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07862.x     Document Type: Article

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