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Route of Glucose Uptake in the Group a Streptococcus Impacts SLS-Mediated Hemolysis and Survival in Human Blood.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2018
Sundar Ganesh S, Islam Emrul, Braza Rezia D, Silver Aliyah B, Le Breton Yoann, McIver Kevin S
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The transport and metabolism of glucose has been shown to have far reaching consequences in the transcriptional profile of many bacteria. As glucose is most often the preferred carbon source for bacteria, its presence in the environment leads to the repression of many alternate carbohydrate pathways, a condition known as carbon catabolite repression (CCR). Additionally, the expression of many virulence factors is...
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