Expression of γ-hemolysin regulated by sae in Staphylococcus aureus strain Smith 5R

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-180

  Yamazaki, Kazuko ^a   Kato, Fuminori ^a   Kamio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kaneko, Jun ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hemolysin expression; Regulation; sae; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

GAMMA HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS SUBSP. AUREUS STRAIN SMITH;

EID: 33744786527     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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