The Staphylococcus aureus CsoR regulates both chromosomal and plasmid-encoded copper resistance mechanisms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2495-2507

  Baker, Jonathan ^a   Sengupta, Mrittika ^b   Jayaswal, Radheshyan K ^b   Morrissey, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; COPPER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PLASMID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COPPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 80052632681     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02522.x     Document Type: Article

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