The vitamin B1 metabolism of Staphylococcus aureus is controlled at enzymatic and transcriptional levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Müller, Ingrid B ^a   Bergmann, Bärbel ^a   Groves, Matthew R ^b   Couto, Isabel ^c   Amaral, Leonard ^c   Begley, Tadhg P ^d   Walter, Rolf D ^a   Wrenger, Carsten ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINO 5 HYDROXYMETHYL 2 METHYLPYRIMIDINE KINASE; 5 (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 4 METHYLTHIAZOLE KINASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; EPIMERASE; PHOSPHATASE; THIAMINASE 2; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINO 5 (HYDROXYMETHYL) 2 METHYLPYRIMIDINE PHOSPHATE KINASE; 4-AMINO-5-(HYDROXYMETHYL)-2-METHYLPYRIMIDINE PHOSPHATE KINASE; HYDROLASE; HYDROXYETHYLTHIAZOLE KINASE; ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; THIAMINASE II;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VITAMIN METABOLISM; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROLASES; KINETICS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHATE GROUP ACCEPTOR); RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; THIAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70449575871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007656     Document Type: Article

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