The sae locus of Staphylococcus aureus encodes a two-component regulatory system

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-22

  Giraudo, Ana T ^a   Calzolari, Aldo ^a   Cataldi, Angel A ^b   Bogni, Cristina ^a   Nagel, Rosa ^a,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c Centre de Estudios Farmacologicos y Botanicos   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Exoprotein synthesis; Global regulatory locus; Sae cloning; Staphylococcus aureus; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HEMOLYSIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032812994     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00282-7     Document Type: Article

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