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New life sciences research has been reported by scientists at Gothenburg University
November 4th, 2008
"Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of otitis media, pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia in humans. The host defense against this pathogen largely depends on bacterial killing by neutrophils," scientists in Gothenburg, Sweden report. "A peculiar property of pneumococci is their tendency to undergo autolysis, i.e., autoinduced disruption of the bacterial cell wall mediated by activation of the enzyme LytA, under stationary growth conditions. LytA is a virulence factor, but the molecular background for this has not been fully clarified. Here we examine how bacterial compounds released upon autolysis affect the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-04)
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