The Conformation and Function of a Multimodular Glycogen-Degrading Pneumococcal Virulence Factor.
Lammerts Van Bueren, A., Ficko-Blean, E., Pluvinage, B., Hehemann, J., Higgins, M.A., Deng, L., Ogunniyi, A.D., Stroeher, U.H., El Warry, N., Burke, R.D., Czjzek, M., Paton, J.C., Vocadlo, D.J., Boraston, A.B.(2011) Structure 19: 640
- PubMed: 21565699 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.03.001
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2YA0, 2YA1, 2YA2 - PubMed Abstract: 
SpuA is a large multimodular cell wall-attached enzyme involved in the degradation of glycogen by the pathogenic bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. The deletion of the gene encoding SpuA from the bacterium resulted in a strain with reduced competitiveness in a mouse model of virulence relative to the parent strain, linking the degradation of host-glycogen to the virulence of the bacterium ...