Cloning and characterization of an accessory gene regulator (agr)-like locus from Staphylococcus epidermidis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Van Wamel, Willem J B ^a   Van Rossum, Gerda ^a   Verhoef, Jan ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^a   Fluit, Ad C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b U Gene Research BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agr locus; AgrA; AgrB; AgrC; AgrD; Hld; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032103979     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00132-3     Document Type: Article

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