Aureusimines in Staphylococcus aureus Are Not Involved in Virulence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Fei ^a   Cho, Hoonsik ^b   Jeong, Do Won ^b   Li, Chunling ^b   He, Chuan ^a   Bae, Taeok ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NORTHWEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; AUREUSIMINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIPEPTIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUREUSIMINE A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE; SAER PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SAES PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSA GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON; SAER GENE; SAES GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; PYRAZINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78650835421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015703     Document Type: Article

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