recA mediated spontaneous deletions of the icaADBC operon of clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates: A new mechanism of phenotypic variations

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-328

  Nuryastuti, Titik ^a,b   van der Mei, Henny C ^a   Busscher, Henk J ^a   Kuijer, Roel ^a   Aman, Abu T ^b   Krom, Bastiaan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Biofilm; icaADBC; Phenotypic variation; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CONGO RED; LEXA PROTEIN; NOVOBIOCIN; POLYMYXIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA ISOLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PH; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 46749157443     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-008-9249-8     Document Type: Article

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