Streptococcus pneumoniae System Is Involved in Virulence of The MicAB Two-Component Signaling
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Competence repression under oxygen limitation through the two-component MicAB signal-transducing system in Streptococcus pneumoniae and involvement of the PAS domain of MicB.
In Streptococcus pneumoniae, a fermentative aerotolerant and catalase-deficient human pathogen, oxidases with molecular oxygen as substrate are important for virulence and for competence. The signal-transducing two-component systems CiaRH and ComDE mediate the response to oxygen, culminating in competence. In this work we show that the two-component MicAB system, whose MicB kinase carries a PAS...
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