The crimson conundrum: Heme toxicity and tolerance in GAS

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Sachla, Ankita J ^a   Le Breton, Yoann ^b   Akhter, Fahmina ^a   McIver, Kevin S ^b   Eichenbaum, Zehava ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaperones; Gram positive; Heme adaptation; Oxidative damage; PefRCD; Redox sensing; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

2, 4 DINITROPHENYLHYDRAZINE; CHAPERONE; HEME; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MARR LIKE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PROTOPORPHYRIN COBALT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; HEME 1; HEMOLYSIN; HLB PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOPORPHYRIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

AGAR DILUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING AFFINITY; BROTH DILUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; GENE CLUSTER; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; GYRA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INOCULATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEFR GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ADAPTATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMOLYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENETIC LOCI; HEME; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOPORPHYRINS; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84915732105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00159     Document Type: Article

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