Biosynthesis of the unique wall teichoic acid of Staphylococcus aureus lineage ST395

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Winstel, Volker ^a,b   Sanchez Carballo, Patricia ^c   Holst, Otto ^c   Xia, Guoqing ^a,b,d   Peschel, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b German Center for Research in Infectious Disease (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO ALANINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; TEICHOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE THETA187; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINEAGE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL WALL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; TEICHOIC ACIDS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

EID: 84899818957     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00869-14     Document Type: Article

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