Peptide signaling in Staphylococcus aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1389-1403

  Lyon, Gholson J ^a   Novick, Richard P ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Gram positive bacteria; Histidine kinase; Peptide signaling; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AUTOINDUCING PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGONIST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHIMERA; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

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

EID: 4544305681     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2003.11.026     Document Type: Article

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