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The Transcriptional Regulator CpsY Is Important for Innate Immune Evasion in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2017
Vega Luis A, Valdes Kayla M, Sundar Ganesh S, Belew Ashton T, Islam Emrul, Berge Jacob, Curry Patrick, Chen Steven, El-Sayed Najib M, Le Breton Yoann, McIver Kevin S
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As an exclusively human pathogen, Streptococcus pyogenes (the group A streptococcus [GAS]) has specifically adapted to evade host innate immunity and survive in multiple tissue niches, including blood. GAS can overcome the metabolic constraints of the blood environment and expresses various immunomodulatory factors necessary for survival and immune cell resistance. Here we present our investigation of one such...
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