Digestion of extracellular DNA is required for giant colony formation of Staphylococcus aureus

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 142-148

  Kaito, Chikara ^a   Hirano, Takanori ^a   Omae, Yosuke ^a   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colony spreading; Extracellular DNA; Nuclease; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE II; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SPREADING; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I GENE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE II GENE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE;

AGAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79959367247     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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