Streptolysin S of Streptococcus anginosus exhibits broad-range hemolytic activity

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 227-237

  Asam, Daniela ^a   Mauerer, Stefanie ^a   Spellerberg, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta hemolysin; Regulation; S. anginosus; Streptococcus milleri; Streptolysin S

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOLYSIN; STREPTOLYSIN S; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STREPTOLYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRANULOCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SAGB GENE; SAGD GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; DOWN-REGULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; GRANULOCYTES; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HORSES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; RABBITS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOLYSINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925484915     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: 14321831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-014-0363-0     Document Type: Article

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