Carbon catabolite repression by seryl phosphorylated HPr is essential to Streptococcus pneumoniae in carbohydrate-rich environments

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 360-380

  Fleming, Eleanor ^a   Lazinski, David W ^a   Camilli, Andrew ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTOSE; SERYL PHOSPHORYLATED HISTIDINE PHOSPHOCARRIER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHOCARRIER PROTEIN HPR; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOSERINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE RICH ENVIRONMENT; CARBOHYDRATE UTILIZATION; CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CCPA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GALACTOSE METABOLISM; GALK GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEXOSE TRANSPORT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LACA GENE; LACR 2 GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

MUS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GALACTOSE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOSERINE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84935747332     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13033     Document Type: Article

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