Transcription of the phage-encoded Panton-Valentine leukocidin of Staphylococcus aureus is dependent on the phage life-cycle and on the host background

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3491-3499

  Witz, Christiane ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^b   Wolz, Christiane ^a   Goerke, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; LIFE CYCLE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, VIRAL; EXOTOXINS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITOMYCIN; REC A RECOMBINASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70450239468     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.032466-0     Document Type: Article

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