Transcriptional and metabolic effects of glucose on Streptococcus pneumoniae sugar metabolism

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Paixão, Laura ^a   Caldas, José ^b   Kloosterman, Tomas G ^c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^c   Vinga, Susana ^b   Neves, Ana R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Glucose; Glycan derived sugars; In vivo 13C NMR; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE; GLYCAN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; RNA ISOLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84946829570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01041     Document Type: Article

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