PerR controls oxidative stress resistance and iron storage proteins and is required for virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3744-3754

  Horsburgh, M J ^a   Clements, M O ^a   Crossley, H ^a   Ingham, E ^a   Foster, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOFERRITIN COMIGRATORY PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CATALASE; FERRITIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KANAMYCIN; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN FUR; PROTEIN PERR; PROTEIN ZUR; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN ABSCESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035013928     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.6.3744-3754.2001     Document Type: Article

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