Streptococcus pneumoniae detects and responds to foreign bacterial peptide fragments in its environment

Open Biology

Volumn 4, Issue APRIL, 2014, Pages

  Hathaway, Lucy J ^a   Bättig, Patrick ^a   Reber, Sandra ^a   Rotzetter, Jeannine U ^a   Aebi, Suzanne ^a   Hauser, Christoph ^a,b   Heller, Manfred ^c   Kadioglu, Aras ^d   Mühlemann, Kathrin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Interspecies communication; Non encapsulated; Peptide; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; PREVOTELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L4; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; NON-ENCAPSULATED; OPEN READING FRAME; PREVOTELLA; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE, BACTERIA; UPREGULATION;

INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION; NON-ENCAPSULATED; PEPTIDE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNX; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREVOTELLA; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84901022666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.130224     Document Type: Article

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