SpxA1 involved in Hydrogen Peroxide production, stress tolerance and endocarditis virulence in streptococcus sanguinis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Lei ^a,b   Ge, Xiuchun ^a   Wang, Xiaojing ^a,c   Patel, Jenishkumar R ^a   Xu, Ping ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SPXA1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID TOLERANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOX GENE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPXA1 GENE; SPXA2 GENE; SPXB GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 84863094449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040034     Document Type: Article

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