Potassium uptake systems in Staphylococcus aureus: New stories about ancient systems

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gründling, Angelika ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KDPD; PROTEIN KTRA; PROTEIN KTRB; PROTEIN KTRC; PROTEIN KTRD; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KDPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; KDP GENE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PH; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887165443     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00784-13     Document Type: Article

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