Structural Basis for Feed-Forward Transcriptional Regulation of Membrane Lipid Homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Albanesi, Daniela ^a,b   Reh, Georgina ^b   Guerin, Marcelo E ^c,d   Schaeffer, Francis ^a   Debarbouille, Michel ^a   Buschiazzo, Alejandro ^a,e   Schujman, Gustavo E ^b   de Mendoza, Diego ^b   Alzari, Pedro M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FATTY ACID; GUANIDINE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MALONYL COENZYME A; PHOSPHOLIPID; SELENOMETHIONINE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LIPID MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MALONYL COENZYME A; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84875075453     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003108     Document Type: Article

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