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Thermoregulation of Capsule Production by Streptococcus pyogenes

The capsule of Streptococcus pyogenes serves as an adhesin as well as an anti-phagocytic factor by binding to CD44 on keratinocytes of the pharyngeal mucosa and the skin, the main entry sites of the pathogen. We discovered that S. pyogenes HSC5 and MGAS315 strains are further thermoregulated for cap...

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Autores principales: Kang, Song Ok, Wright, Jordan O., Tesorero, Rafael A., Lee, Hyunwoo, Beall, Bernard, Cho, Kyu Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037367