Production profile of the soluble lytic transglycosylase homologue in Staphylococcus aureus during bacterial proliferation

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 288-295

  Sakata, Noriaki ^a   Mukai, Toshiji ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial growth; Cell wall protein; Gene expression; Soluble lytic transglycosylase domain; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNODOMINANT ANTIGEN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERNATANT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33846984621     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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