Extracellular life cycle of ComS, the competence-stimulating peptide of Streptococcus thermophilus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1845-1855

  Gardan, Rozenn ^a   Besset, Colette ^a   Gitton, Christophe ^a   Guillot, Alain ^a   Fontaine, Laetitia ^b   Hols, Pascal ^b   Monnet, Véronique ^a  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN COMS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUORUM SENSING; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUCIFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; QUORUM SENSING; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84876079846     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02196-12     Document Type: Article

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