Cloning of an agr homologue of Staphylococcus saprophyticus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 157-161

  Sakinc, Türkan ^a   Kulczak, Pawel ^a   Henne, Karsten ^a   Gatermann, Sören G ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

agr; Gene regulation; Staphylococcus saprophyticus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

EID: 3242782560     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.06.030     Document Type: Article

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