Transcription of the Toxin Genes Present within the Staphylococcal Phage φSa3ms Is Intimately Linked with the Phage's Life Cycle

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6841-6851

  Sumby, Paul ^a,b   Waldor, Matthew K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; MITOMYCIN C; STAPHYLOKINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROPHAGES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; SUPERANTIGENS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0344393473     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.23.6841-6851.2003     Document Type: Article

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