The arginine-ornithine antiporter arcD contributes to biological fitness of streptococcus suis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Fulde, Marcus ^a,b,d   Willenborg, Joerg ^a   Huber, Claudia ^c   Hitzmann, Angela ^b   Willms, Daniela ^a   Seitz, Maren ^a   Eisenreich, Wolfgang ^c   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^a   Goethe, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine deiminase system; Arginine ornithine antiporter; Biological fitness; Streptococcus suis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTIPORTER; ARGININE DEIMINASE; ARGININE ORNITHINE ANTIPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 84940315716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00107     Document Type: Article

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