Interspecies communication among commensal and pathogenic streptococci

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cook, Laura C ^a   LaSarre, Breah ^a   Federle, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RGG; SHORT HYDROPHOBIC PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BIOFILM; COMMENSAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RGG3 GENE; ROVS GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHP GENE; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A'; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 84883294215     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00382-13     Document Type: Article

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