Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus requires glycosylated wall teichoic acids

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

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18909-18914

  Brown, Stephanie ^a   Xia, Guoqing ^b   Luhachack, Lyly G ^c   Campbell, Jennifer ^a   Meredith, Timothy C ^a   Chen, Calvin ^a   Winstel, Volker ^b   Gekeler, Cordula ^b   Irazoqui, Javier E ^c   Peschel, Andreas ^b   Walker, Suzanne ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Beta lactam potentiation; Murein; PBP2A; WTA glycosylation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFRADINE; CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; CYCLOSERINE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TARS PROTEIN; TEICHOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GLYCOSYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMS; CELL WALL; GENE DELETION; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84869214183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209126109     Document Type: Article

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