Tricarboxylic acid cycle-dependent attenuation of Staphylococcus aureus in vivo virulence by selective inhibition of amino acid transport

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4256-4264

  Zhu, Yefei ^a   Xiong, Yan Q ^b,c   Sadykov, Marat R ^a   Fey, Paul D ^d   Lei, Mei G ^e   Lee, Chia Y ^e   Bayer, Arnold S ^b,c   Somerville, Greg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; POLYSACCHARIDE INTERCELLULAR ADHESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE PERMEASE GENE; HEART; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPLEEN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RABBITS; SPLEEN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 70349435418     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00195-09     Document Type: Article

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