Saturated Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of the Pneumococcus Competence Stimulating Peptide Identifies Analogs That Inhibit Genetic Transformation

Chaohui Duan; Luchang Zhu; Ying Xu; Gee W. Lau

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044710

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Saturated Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of the Pneumococcus Competence Stimulating Peptide Identifies Analogs That Inhibit Genetic Transformation

Chaohui Duan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaohui Duan, Luchang Zhu

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
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Luchang Zhu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaohui Duan, Luchang Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Ying Xu,

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
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Gee W. Lau

* E-mail: geelau@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Saturated Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of the Pneumococcus Competence Stimulating Peptide Identifies Analogs That Inhibit Genetic Transformation

Chaohui Duan,
Luchang Zhu,
Ying Xu,
Gee W. Lau

Published: September 13, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044710

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Saturated Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of the Pneumococcus Competence Stimulating Peptide Identifies Analogs That Inhibit Genetic Transformation

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