Identification, cloning, and initial characterization of rot, a locus encoding a regulator of virulence factor expression in Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3197-3203

  Mcnamara, Peter J ^a   Milligan Monroe, Kathy C ^a   Khalili, Shirin ^a   Proctor, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

AGRA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034072572     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.11.3197-3203.2000     Document Type: Article

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