SigB Is a Dominant Regulator of Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Gabriel ^a,c   Fugère, Alexandre ^a   Pépin Gaudreau, Karine ^a   Brouillette, Eric ^a   Frost, Eric H ^b   Cantin, André M ^b   Malouin, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE; SCLEROPROTEIN;

AGR GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FNBA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGB GENE; SMALL COLONY VARIANT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LUNG; MICE; PROTEOLYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SHEEP; SIGMA FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84877957433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065018     Document Type: Article

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