Competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae Is a Response to an Increasing Mutational Burden

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gagne, Alyssa L ^a   Stevens, Kathleen E ^a,e   Cassone, Marco ^a   Pujari, Amit ^b   Abiola, Olufunke E ^b,f   Chang, Diana J ^c,g   Sebert, Michael E ^a,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Shire Human Genetic Therapies   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HEXA GENE; HEXB GENE; MUTX GENE; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; QUORUM SENSING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84881538220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072613     Document Type: Article

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