Characterization of a New CAMP Factor Carried by an Integrative and Conjugative Element in Streptococcus agalactiae and Spreading in Streptococci

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Chuzeville, Sarah ^a,b   Puymège, Aurore ^b   Madec, Jean Yves ^a   Haenni, Marisa ^a   Payot, Sophie ^b  

^a Unite Antibioresistance et Virulence Bacteriennes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP FACTOR II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84869018935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048918     Document Type: Article

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