Complete hydrolysis of cellulose has been a key characteristic of biomass technology
because of the limitation of industrial production hosts to use cellodextrin, the partial …

GntR family transcription factors have been implicated in the regulation of carbohydrate
transport and metabolism in many bacteria. However, the function of this transcription factor …

Background The specificity of molecular methods for the detection of Streptococcus
pneumoniae carriage is under debate. We propose a procedure for carriage surveillance …

Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) must acquire iron from the host to establish infection. We
examined the impact of hemoglobin, the largest iron reservoir in the body, on pneumococcal …

Cellobiose metabolism is linked to the virulence properties in numerous bacterial
pathogens. Here, we characterized a putative cellobiose PTS operon of Clostridiodes …

Comparison of the transcriptome of Streptococcus pneumoniae strain D39 grown in the
presence of either lactose or galactose with that of the strain grown in the presence of …

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) carriage is commonly used to measure
effects of pneumococcal vaccines. Based on findings from culture-based studies, the World …

Bacterial small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are gene expression modulators respond to
environmental changes, stressful conditions, and pathogenesis. In this study, by using a …

In this study, we investigated the transcriptomic response of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39
to sialic acid (N-acetylneuraminic acid [Neu5Ac]). Transcriptome comparison of wild-type …

In this study, the regulatory mechanism of the ula (utilization of l-ascorbic acid) operon,
putatively responsible for transport and utilization of ascorbic acid in Streptococcus …