The gate controlling cell wall synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1221-1231

  Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Fujiwara, Tamaki ^a   Nishi, Hiromi ^a   Yamada, Sakuo ^b   Ohara, Masaru ^a   McCallum, Nadine ^c   Berger Bächi, Brigitte ^c   Sugai, Motoyuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; FOSFOMYCIN; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE AMIDOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; GLUCOSAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; METICILLIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE DEACETYLASE; OXACILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GLYCOLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOMERIZATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 4344564753     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04200.x     Document Type: Article

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