A genome-wide strategy for the identification of essential genes in Staphylococcus aureus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1387-1400

  Forsyth, R Allyn ^a   Haselbeck, Robert J ^a   Ohlsen, Kari L ^a   Yamamoto, Robert T ^a   Xu, Howard ^a   Trawick, John D ^a   Wall, Daniel ^a   Wang, Liangsu ^a   Brown Driver, Vickie ^a   Froelich, Jamie M ^a   Kedar, G C ^a   King, Paula ^a   McCarthy, Melissa ^a   Malone, Cheryl ^a   Misiner, Brian ^a   Robbins, David ^a   Tan, Zehui ^a   Zhu, Zhan Yang ^a   Carr, Grant ^a   Mosca, Deborah A ^a   Zamudio, Carlos ^a   Foulkes, J Gordon ^a   Zyskind, Judith W ^b   more..

^a Elitra Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; XYLOSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMATALES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036271625     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02832.x     Document Type: Article

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