The small regulatory RNA FasX controls pilus expression and adherence in the human bacterial pathogen group A Streptococcus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-154

  Liu, Zhuyun ^a   Treviño, Jeanette ^a   Ramirez Peña, Esmeralda ^a   Sumby, Paul ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN FIBRINOGEN BINDING HEMOLYTIC ACTIVITY STREPTOKINASE REGULATOR X; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BASE PAIRING; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 84867064723     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08178.x     Document Type: Article

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