Circuitry Rewiring Directly Couples Competence to Predation in the Gut Dweller Streptococcus salivarius

Cell Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1627-1638

  Mignolet, Johann ^a   Fontaine, Laetitia ^a   Sass, Andrea ^b   Nannan, Catherine ^a   Mahillon, Jacques ^a   Coenye, Tom ^b   Hols, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bacteriocin production; cell cell communication; competence; Rgg; RNPP; streptococcus; transcriptional network

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; COMR PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PREDATION; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREDATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CHEMISTRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS;

EID: 85042027769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.055     Document Type: Article

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