A point mutation in the sensor histidine kinase saeS of Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman alters the response to biocide exposure

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7306-7314

  Schäfer, Daniel ^a   Lâm, Thiên Trí ^a   Geiger, Tobias ^b   Mainiero, Markus ^b   Engelmann, Susanne ^c   Hussain, Muzaffar ^d   Bosserhoff, Armin ^e   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Bischoff, Markus ^f   Wolz, Christiane ^b   Reidl, Joachim ^g   Sinha, Bhanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BIOCIDE; ENZYME SAES; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL INVASION; DOWN REGULATION; EAP GENE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAES GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 72249084950     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00630-09     Document Type: Article

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