Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterial nitric-oxide synthase affects antibiotic sensitivity and skin abscess development

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6417-6426

  Van Sorge, Nina M ^a   Beasley, Federico C ^a   Gusarov, Ivan ^d   Gonzalez, David J ^a,b   Von Köckritz Blickwede, Maren ^a   Anik, Sabina ^a   Borkowski, Andrew W ^a   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^b,c   Nudler, Evgeny ^d   Nizet, Victor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; BACILLUS SPECIES; BACTERIAL SPECIES; CATHELICIDIN; CELL ENVELOPES; DAPTOMYCIN; EXTRACELLULAR; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN NEUTROPHIL; INFECTION MODELS; INNATE IMMUNES; ISOGENIC; L-ARGININE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHARMACEUTICAL ANTIBIOTICS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; S. AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOLOGY; POLYPEPTIDES;

BACTERIA;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATHELICIDIN; DAPTOMYCIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS;

ABSCESS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DAPTOMYCIN; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84874782570     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.448738     Document Type: Article

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