Pneumococcal Extracellular Serine Proteases: Molecular Analysis and Impact on Colonization and Disease

The pathobiont Streptococcus pneumoniae causes life-threatening diseases, including pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, or non-invasive infections such as otitis media. Serine proteases are enzymes that have been emerged during evolution as one of the most abundant and functionally diverse group of prote...

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Main Authors: Murtadha Q. Ali, Thomas P. Kohler, Lukas Schulig, Gerhard Burchhardt, Sven Hammerschmidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2021.763152/full