Transcriptional Regulation of the Staphylococcus aureus Thioredoxin and Thioredoxin Reductase Genes in Response to Oxygen and Disulfide Stress

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 326-334

  Uziel, Orit ^a,b   Borovok, Ilya ^a   Schreiber, Rachel ^a   Cohen, Gerald ^a   Aharonowitz, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDE; DISULFIDE; GENE PRODUCT; MENADIONE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN TRXA; PROTEIN TRXB; SIGMA FACTOR; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DISULFIDES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (NADPH); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0347915666     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.2.326-334.2004     Document Type: Article

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