The β-galactosidase (BgaC) of the zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis is a surface protein without the involvement of bacterial virulence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hu, Dan ^a   Zhang, Fengyu ^a   Zhang, Huimin ^d   Hao, Lina ^a   Gong, Xiufang ^a   Geng, Meiling ^a   Cao, Min ^a   Zheng, Feng ^a   Zhu, Jin ^a   Pan, Xiuzhen ^a   Tang, Jiaqi ^a   Feng, Youjun ^b,c   Wang, Changjun ^a  

^a Research Institute for Medicine of Nanjing Command   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84905560345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04140     Document Type: Article

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