Changes in the Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome during early adaptation to the lung

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Chaffin, Donald O ^a   Taylor, Destry ^b   Skerrett, Shawn J ^b   Rubens, Craig E ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DELTA HEMOLYSIN; DNA; HEMOLYSIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN ALPHA 1; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN ALPHA 2; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN ALPHA 3; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN ALPHA 4; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN BETA 1; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN BETA 2; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; AHPCF GENE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FBS GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HLD GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PCKA GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UPREGULATION; USPA GENE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COENZYMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84864487648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041329     Document Type: Article

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