Impact of the functional status of saeRS on in vivo phenotypes of Staphylococcus aureussarA mutants

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1299-1312

  Beenken, Karen E ^a   Mrak, Lara N ^a   Zielinska, Agnieszka K ^a   Atwood, Danielle N ^a   Loughran, Allister J ^a   Griffin, Linda M ^a   Matthews, K Alice ^a   Anthony, Allison M ^a   Spencer, Horace J ^a   Skinner, Robert A ^a   Post, Ginell R ^a   Lee, Chia Y ^a   Smeltzer, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ACCESSORY REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEIN KINASE; SAER PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SAES PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SARA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN KINASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84902009382     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12629     Document Type: Article

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