Roles of CcrA and CcrB in excision and integration of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, a Staphylococcus aureus genomic island

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3204-3212

  Wang, Lei ^a   Archer, Gordon L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77954013672     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01520-09     Document Type: Article

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