Stress-triggered signaling affecting survival or suicide of Streptococcus pneumoniae

PAULO R CORTES; GERMAN PIÑAS; MELINA CIAN; NUBIA YANDAR

ELSEVIER GMBH

Año: 2015

p>tStreptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen that can survive to stress conditions, such as theacidic environment of inflammatory foci, and tolerates lethal pH through a mechanism known as theacid tolerance response. We previously described that S. pneumoniae activates acidic-stress induced lysisin response to acidified environments, favoring the release of cell wall compounds, DNA and virulencefactors.Here, we demonstrate that F