The enterotoxin D plasmid of Staphylococcus aureus encodes a second enterotoxin determinant (sej)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-233

  Zhang, Shuping ^a   Iandolo, John J ^b   Stewart, George C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agr regulation; Enterotoxin; Plasmid; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; FOOD POISONING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FELIS CATUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031731698     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00423-6     Document Type: Article

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