Article
Differential recognition of surface proteins in Streptococcus pyogenes by two sortase gene homologs.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 2002
Barnett Timothy C, Scott June R
Abstract excerpt
The interaction of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus [GAS]) with its human host requires several surface proteins. In this study, we isolated mutations in a gene required for the surface localization of protein F by transposon mutagenesis of the M6 strain JRS4. This gene (srtA) encodes a protein homologous to Staphylococcus aureus sortase, which covalently links proteins containing an LPXTG motif to...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Aminoacyltransferases
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Wall
- Cysteine Endopeptidases
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Streptococcus pyogenes
