Article
An unstable competence-induced protein, CoiA, promotes processing of donor DNA after uptake during genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2006
Desai Bhushan V, Morrison Donald A
Abstract excerpt
Natural genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae entails transcriptional activation of at least two sets of genes. One set of genes, activated by the competence-specific response regulator ComE, is involved in initiating competence, whereas a second set is activated by the competence-specific alternative sigma factor ComX and functions in DNA uptake and recombination. Here we report an initial...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Biological Transport
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Streptococcus
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Transformation, Bacterial