宿Streptococcus pneumoniae

Heather L Shearer1, Michael J Currie2, Hannah N Agnew3

  • 1Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, Mātai Hāora - Centre for Redox Biology and Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand; Biomolecular Interaction Centre, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, New Zealand.

概括

肺炎 estreptococcus 使用 hypothiocyanous 酸减少酶 (Har) 酶来生存宿主的免疫防御. 删除Har显著减少了小鼠模型中的细菌殖民和入侵,突出了它在毒性中的作用.