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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Streptococcus pyogenes
SUBMITTER: Kevin McIver
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11328 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Infection and immunity 20080519 8
CcpA is the global mediator of carbon catabolite repression (CCR) in gram-positive bacteria, and growing evidence from several pathogens, including the group A streptococcus (GAS), suggests that CcpA plays an important role in virulence gene regulation. In this study, a deletion of ccpA in an invasive M1 GAS strain was used to test the contribution of CcpA to pathogenesis in mice. Surprisingly, the DeltaccpA mutant exhibited a dramatic "hypervirulent" phenotype compared to the parental MGAS5005 ...[more]