Transcriptional downregulation of agr expression in Staphylococcus aureus during growth in human serum can be overcome by constitutively active mutant forms of the sensor kinase AgrC

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-162

  James, Ellen H ^a   Edwards, Andrew M ^a   Wigneshweraraj, Sivaramesh ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GFP transcriptional reporters; Transcription regulation; Two component systems

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN AGRC; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGR GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SERUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

GFP TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPORTERS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; SERUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84888072982     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12309     Document Type: Letter

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