Investigation of the Staphylococcus aureus GraSR regulon reveals novel links to virulence, stress response and cell wall signal transduction pathways

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Falord, Mélanie ^a,b   Mäder, Ulrike ^c   Hiron, Aurélia ^a,b   Dbarbouillé, Michel ^a,b   Msadek, Tarek ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; CYCLIC AMP; TRANSCRIPTOME; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLT GENE; GENE INDUCTION; GRASR GENE; GRAX GENE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MPRF GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VRAFG GENE; CELL WALL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL WALL; COLISTIN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79959811246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021323     Document Type: Article

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