Identification of three essential regulatory gene loci governing expression of Staphylococcus epidermidis polysaccharide intercellular adhesin and biofilm formation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3799-3807

  Mack, Dietrich ^a   Rohde, Holger ^a   Dobinsky, Sabine ^a   Riedewald, Joachim ^a   Nedelmann, Max ^a   Knobloch, Johannes K M ^a   Elsner, Holger A ^a   Feucht, Hubert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSPOSON;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0033931998     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.3799-3807.2000     Document Type: Article

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