CodY is involved in the adaptive response to starvation in at least 30 different low G+ C
gram-positive bacteria. After dimerization and activation by cofactor binding, CodY binds to a …

Phosphorylation relays are a major mechanism by which bacteria alter transcription in
response to environmental signals, but understanding of the functional consequences of …

The CovR/S two‐component system regulates the transcription of many genes that are
crucial for the virulence of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) …

The c ontrol ofv irulence gene r egulator (CovR), also called c aspsule s ynthesis r egulator
(CsrR), is critical to how the major human pathogen group A Streptococcus fine-tunes …

Streptococcus mutans, the principal causative agent of dental caries, produces four glucan-
binding proteins (Gbp) that play major roles in bacterial adherence and pathogenesis. One …

CovR/S is a two-component signal transduction system (TCS) that controls the expression of
various virulence related genes in many streptococci. However, in the dental pathogen …

Genes encoding one or more Ser/Thr protein kinases have been identified recently in many
bacteria, including one (stk) in the human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes (group A …

The lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus (S. thermophilus) is widely used in the
dairy industry. As a food bacterium, it has to cope with changing environments such as milk …

In an attempt to expand the available knowledge of pathogen–host interactions during ex
vivo growth of Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) in nonimmune whole human blood, the …

The c ontrol ofv irulence two-component gene regulatory system (CovRS) is critical to the
pathogenesis of many medically important streptococci. In emm1 group A streptococci …