Quorum-sensing agr mediates bacterial oxidation response via an intramolecular disulfide redox switch in the response regulator AgrA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 9095-9100

  Sun, Fei ^a   Liang, Haihua ^a   Kong, Xiangqian ^b   Xie, Sherrie ^a   Cho, Hoonsik ^c   Deng, Xin ^a   Ji, Quanjiang ^a   Zhang, Haiyan ^a   Alvarez, Sophie ^d   Hicks, Leslie M ^d   Bae, Taeok ^c   Luo, Cheng ^b   Jiang, Hualiang ^b   He, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

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

^d DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTINE; DISULFIDE; DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BSAA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA BINDING; GENE REPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84861848835     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200603109     Document Type: Article

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