Streptococcal collagen-like protein A and general stress protein 24 are immunomodulating virulence factors of group A Streptococcus

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2633-2643

  Tsatsaronis, James A ^a   Hollands, Andrew ^b,c   Cole, Jason N ^b,c   Maamary, Peter G ^c   Gillen, Christine M ^c   Ben Zakour, Nouri L ^c   Kotb, Malak ^d,e   Nizet, Victor ^b   Beatson, Scott A ^c   Walker, Mark J ^c   Sanderson Smith, Martina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; Next generation sequencing; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENERAL STRESS PROTEIN 24; STREPTOCOCCAL COLLAGEN LIKE PROTEIN A; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL INVASION ASSAY; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHERENCE ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NEUTROPHIL RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

INNATE IMMUNITY; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHILS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 84879673265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-226662     Document Type: Article

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