Characterization of the Group A Streptococcus Mga virulence regulator reveals a role for the C-terminal region in oligomerization and transcriptional activation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 953-967

  Hondorp, Elise R ^a   Hou, Sherry C ^a   Hempstead, Andrew D ^a   Hause, Lara L ^a   Beckett, Dorothy M ^b   McIver, Kevin S ^a  

^a Maryland Pathogen Research Institute   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MGA PROTEIN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MGA GENE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIRULENCE;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 84857368768     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.07980.x     Document Type: Article

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