Journal articleAuthors : Rutbeek, Nicole R. (2021)
Streptococcus pyogenes, or Group A Streptococcus, is a Gram-positive bacterium that
4 can be both a human commensal and pathogen. Central to this dichotomy are temperate
5 bacteriophages that incorporate into the bacterial genome as a prophage. These genetic
6 elements encode both the phage proteins as well as toxins harmful to the human host.
7 One such conserved phage protein paratox (Prx) is always found enco...