A clostridium difficile-specific, gel-forming protein required for optimal spore germination

mBio

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lauren Donnelly, M ^a   Li, William ^b   Li, Yong Qing ^b   Hinkel, Lauren ^a,c   Setlow, Peter ^d   Shen, Aimee ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CSPA; PROTEIN CSPB; PROTEIN CSPC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BRAIN CORTEX LAYER; CELL METABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GERG GENE; HYDROLYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 85014763842     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02085-16     Document Type: Article

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