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Literature summary for 4.4.1.5 extracted from

  • Zhang, M.M.; Ong, C.L.; Walker, M.J.; McEwan, A.G.
    Defence against methylglyoxal in Group A Streptococcus a role for Glyoxylase I in bacterial virulence and survival in neutrophils? (2016), Pathog. Dis., 74, ftv122 .
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Streptococcus pyogenes
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Streptococcus pyogenes M1T1
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
GloA
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Streptococcus pyogenes

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
physiological function a mutant deficient in glyoxylase I is more sensitive to methylglyoxal and also more susceptible to human neutrophil killing. Inhibition of neutrophil myeloperoxidase rescues the gloA-deficient mutant. The mutant strain is slower at disseminating into the blood in the murine model Streptococcus pyogenes