Enhanced post-stationary-phase survival of a clinical thymidine-dependent small-colony variant of Staphylococcus aureus results from lack of a functional tricarboxylic acid cycle

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2936-2940

  Chatterjee, Indranil ^a   Herrmann, Mathias ^a   Proctor, Richard A ^b   Peters, Georg ^c   Kahl, Barbara C ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; THYMIDINE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ARCA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CATABOLISM; CELL SURVIVAL; CIPC GENE; CITB GENE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENE DELETION; KINETICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYMIDINE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAWBERRY CRINKLE VIRUS;

EID: 34147112687     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01444-06     Document Type: Article

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