Sialic acid-mediated gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae and role of nanr as a transcriptional activator of the nan gene cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3121-3131

  Afzal, Muhammad ^a,b   Shafeeq, Sulman ^a,c   Ahmed, Hifza ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

GENE CLUSTERS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; CULTURE MEDIUM; GLUCOSE; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84927792227     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00499-15     Document Type: Article

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