Identification of an essential glycoprotease in Staphylococcus aureus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 279-285

  Zheng, Li ^a   Yang, Junshu ^a   Landwehr, Christina ^a   Fan, Frank ^b   Ji, Yinduo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Glycoprotease (Gcp); Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOPROTEIN; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 17144399138     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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