svrA, a multi-drug exporter, does not control agr

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1604-1608

  Chen, John ^a   Novick, Richard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; GENE PRODUCT; HEMOLYSIN; PROTEIN AGR; PROTEIN AGRC; STAPHYOCCOCUS PROTEIN SVRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34249067730     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/006247-0     Document Type: Article

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