Phenotypic, genomic, and transcriptional characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae interacting with human pharyngeal cells

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kimaro Mlacha, Sheila Z ^a,b,g   Romero Steiner, Sandra ^c   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^b   Kumar, Nikhil ^b   Ishmael, Nadeeza ^b   Riley, David R ^b   Farooq, Umar ^b   Creasy, Todd H ^b   Tallon, Luke J ^b   Liu, Xinyue ^b   Goldsmith, Cynthia S ^d   Sampson, Jacquelyn ^c   Carlone, George M ^c   Hollingshead, Susan K ^e   Scott, J Anthony G ^a,f   Tettelin, Hervé ^b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adherence; Gene expression; Genome; Invasion; Microarray; Mutagenesis; Ply operon; SP_1922; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PNEUMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHARYNX; PSEUDOPODIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84878645968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-383     Document Type: Article

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