Global analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus response to mupirocin

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 787-804

  Reiß, Swantje ^a   Pané Farré, Jan ^a   Fuchs, Stephan ^a   François, Patrice ^b   Liebeke, Manuel ^a,d   Schrenzel, Jacques ^b   Lindequist, Ulrike ^a   Lalk, Michael ^a   Wolz, Christiane ^c   Hecker, Michael ^a   Engelmann, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; DNA; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; DNA MICROARRAY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ISOLEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUPIROCIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84856071085     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05363-11     Document Type: Article

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