Complement-mediated opsonization of invasive group A Streptococcus pyogenes strain AP53 is regulated by the bacterial two-component cluster of virulence responder/sensor (covRS) system

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 27494-27504

  Agrahari, Garima ^a   Liang, Zhong ^a   Mayfield, Jeffrey A ^a   Balsara, Rashna D ^a   Ploplis, Victoria A ^a   Castellino, Francis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEINS; HUMAN NEUTROPHIL; OPSONOPHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMA PROTEIN; REGULATORY SYSTEMS; SENSOR COMPONENTS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR;

CELLS; DEPOSITION; GENES; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; PROTEINS; SENSORS;

CYTOLOGY;

CLASSICAL COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4 BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVRS GENE; ENN GENE; FBA GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; MOUSE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; OPSONOPHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL TRANSCRIPTION; GENE REGULATION; GENE TRANSCRIPTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TARGET GENES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT C3B; COMPLEMENT C4B-BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84884571258     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.494864     Document Type: Article

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