Effects of deletion of the Streptococcus pneumoniae lipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase gene Lgt on ABC transporter function and on growth in vivo

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Chimalapati, Suneeta ^a   Cohen, Jonathan M ^a,b   Camberlein, Emilie ^a   MacDonald, Nathanael ^a   Durmort, Claire ^c,d,e   Vernet, Thierry ^c,d,e   Hermans, Peter W M ^f   Mitchell, Timothy ^g   Brown, Jeremy S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CATION; GLUCOSE; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN DIACYLGLYCERYL TRANSFERASE; MALTOTRIOSE; RAFFINOSE; TRITON X 114; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; CELL LEVEL; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LGT GENE; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CARBOHYDRATES; CATIONS; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFERASES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84864270589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041393     Document Type: Article

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