β-lactams interfering with PBP1 induce panton-valentine leukocidin expression by triggering sarA and rot global regulators of Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3261-3271

  Dumitrescu, Oana ^a   Choudhury, Priya ^b   Boisset, Sandrine ^a   Badiou, Cédric ^a   Bes, Michele ^a   Benito, Yvonne ^a   Wolz, Christiane ^c   Vandenesch, François ^a   Etienne, Jerome ^a   Cheung, Ambrose L ^d   Bowden, Maria Gabriela ^b   Lina, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFACLOR; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DRUG BINDING PROTEIN; IMIPENEM; MESSENGER RNA; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN ROT; SMAD ANCHOR FOR RECEPTOR ACTIVATION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BETA-LACTAMS; CEFACLOR; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMIPENEM; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 79959249644     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01401-10     Document Type: Article

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