The fusidic acid stimulon of Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1207-1214

  Delgado, Alejandro ^a   Zaman, Shahrear ^a   Muthaiyan, Arunachalam ^b   Nagarajan, Vijayaraj ^c   Elasri, Mohamed O ^c   Wilkinson, Brian J ^b   Gustafson, John E ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboxypeptidase; QacA efflux; Staphylococcal secretory antigen; Transcriptomics; yycFG

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; ELONGATION FACTOR G; FUSIDIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL METABOLISM; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STIMULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FUSIDIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 56649085334     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn363     Document Type: Article

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