Staphylococcal methicillin resistance: Fine focus on folds and functions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Mallorquí Fernández, Goretti ^a   Marrero, Aniebrys ^a   García Piquè, Sonia ^a   García Castellanos, Raquel ^a   Gomis Rüth, F Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BLA, lactam antibiotic; DBD, DNA binding domain; DD, dimerisation domain; MRSA, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA, methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, NPBD, non penicillin binding domain; PBP, penicillin binding protein

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 2442707991     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.035     Document Type: Short Survey

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