Pneumococcal carbohydrate transport: Food for thought

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 517-522

  Buckwalter, Carolyn M ^a,b   King, Samantha J ^a,b  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP binding cassette transport; Carbohydrate; Phosphotransferase system; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CARBON SOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; FERMENTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84867901259     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.08.008     Document Type: Review

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