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CovS inactivation reduces CovR promoter binding at diverse virulence factor encoding genes in group A Streptococcus
18 Feb 2022
Abstract excerpt
The control of virulence gene regulator (CovR), also called caspsule synthesis regulator (CsrR), is critical to how the major human pathogen group A Streptococcus fine-tunes virulence factor production. CovR phosphorylation (CovR~P) levels are determined by its cognate sensor kinase CovS, and functional abrogating mutations in CovS can occur in invasive GAS isolates leading to hypervirulence. Presently, the...
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