Identification of the P3 promoter and distinct roles of the two promoters of the SaeRS two-component system in Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4672-4684

  Jeong, Do Won ^a   Cho, Hoonsik ^a   Lee, Hyunwoo ^b   Li, Chunling ^a   Garza, Joshua ^a   Fried, Melinda ^c   Bae, Taeok ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COAGULASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SAEQ PROTEIN; SAER PROTEIN; SAES PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STABILITY; SAERS TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STABILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 80052553911     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00353-11     Document Type: Article

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