Identification of CiaR regulated genes that promote group b streptococcal virulence and interaction with brain endothelial cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Mu, Rong ^a   Cutting, Andrew S ^a   Rosario, Yvette Del ^a   Villarino, Nicholas ^a   Stewart, Lara ^a   Weston, Thomas A ^a   Patras, Kathryn A ^a   Doran, Kelly S ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; RAB PROTEIN; RAB5 PROTEIN; RAB7 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIAR PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LYSOSOME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84964807244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153891     Document Type: Article

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