The two-component response regulator LiaR regulates cell wall stress responses, pili expression and virulence in group B Streptococcus

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART7, 2013, Pages 1521-1534

  Klinzing, David C ^a,f,g   Ishmael, Nadeeza ^b,c,h   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^b,c   Tettelin, Hervé ^b,c   Shields, Kelly R ^a   Madoff, Lawrence C ^d,e   Puopolo, Karen M ^a,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (Philippines)

^h Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; COLISTIN; NISIN; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIAR GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 84879814080     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.064444-0     Document Type: Article

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