The Essentiality of Staphylococcal Gcp Is Independent of Its Repression of Branched-Chain Amino Acids Biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Lei, Ting ^a   Yang, Junshu ^a   Zheng, Li ^a   Markowski, Todd ^b   Witthuhn, Bruce A ^b   Ji, Yinduo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; CODY PROTEIN; GCP PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; THREONYLCARBAMOYLADENOSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACIDS; CULTURE MEDIA; DOWN-REGULATION; OPERON; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEOMICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISLA VISTA VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84867116495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046836     Document Type: Article

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