Genetic characterization of staphopain genes in Staphylococcus aureus

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 385, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1059-1067

  Golonka, Ewa ^a   Filipek, Renata ^a,b   Sabat, Artur ^a,c   Sinczak, Anna ^a   Potempa, Jan ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteinase; Distribution; Polymorphism; Sequence

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 10044261761     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2004.137     Document Type: Article

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