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Role of Streptococcus intermedius DnaK chaperone system in stress tolerance and pathogenicity.
Cell stress & chaperones - 1 Jan 2012
Tomoyasu Toshifumi, Tabata Atsushi, Imaki Hidenori, Tsuruno Keigo, Miyazaki Aya, Sonomoto Kenji, Whiley Robert Alan, Nagamune Hideaki
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Streptococcus intermedius is a facultatively anaerobic, opportunistic pathogen that causes purulent infections and abscess formation. The DnaK chaperone system has been characterized in several pathogenic bacteria and seems to have important functions in stress resistance and pathogenicity. However, the role of DnaK in S. intermedius remains unclear. Therefore, we constructed a dnaK knockout mutant that exhibited...
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