Involvement of ribonuclease Y in pilus production by M49 Streptococcus pyogenes strain via modulation of messenger RNA level of transcriptional regulator

• Published in: Microbiology and immunology Vol. 67; no. 7; p. 319
• Main Authors: Kubota, Seiko, Nakata, Masanobu, Hirose, Yujiro, Yamaguchi, Masaya, Kreikemeyer, Bernd, Uzawa, Narikazu, Sumitomo, Tomoko, Kawabata, Shigetada
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Streptococcus pyogenes; pili; virulence factor; ribonuclease Y; transcriptional regulator

Streptococcus pyogenes displays a wide variety of pili, which is largely dependent on serotype. A distinct subset of S. pyogenes strains that possess the Nra transcriptional regulator demonstrates thermoregulated pilus production. Findings obtained in the present study of an Nra-positive serotype M4...