Epistatic relationships between sarA and agr in Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Beenken, Karen E ^a   Mrak, Lara N ^a   Griffin, Linda M ^a   Zielinska, Agnieszka K ^a   Shaw, Lindsey N ^b   Rice, Kelly C ^c   Horswill, Alexander R ^d   Bayles, Kenneth W ^e   Smeltzer, Mark S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY GENE REGULATOR PROTEIN; ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEINASE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ACCESSORY REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RNA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77956523972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010790     Document Type: Article

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