Extensive and genome-wide changes in the transcription profile of Staphylococcus aureus induced by modulating the transcription of the cell wall synthesis gene murF

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2376-2391

  Sobral, Rita G ^a,d   Jones, Alison E ^b   Des Etages, Shelley G ^b   Dougherty, Thomas J ^b   Peitzsch, Robert M ^b   Gaasterland, Terry ^c   Ludovice, Ana Madalena ^a   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,d   Tomasz, Alexander ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ENTEROTOXIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ISD GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MURF GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VRASR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEOME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33947175462     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01439-06     Document Type: Article

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