The Staphylococcus aureus KdpDE two-component system couples extracellular K+ sensing and agr signaling to infection programming

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2154-2167

  Xue, Ting ^a   You, Yibo ^a   Hong, De ^a   Sun, Haipeng ^a   Sun, Baolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN KDPDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUR GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAP GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEH GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HLA GENE; HLGB GENE; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; KDPF GENE; KDPFABC GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POTASSIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 79959472494     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01180-10     Document Type: Article

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