Compound-gene interaction mapping reveals distinct roles for Staphylococcus aureus teichoic acids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 12510-12515

  Santa Maria Jr , John P ^a   Sadaka, Ama ^b   Moussa, Samir H ^a   Brown, Stephanie ^a   Zhang, Yanjia J ^a,c   Rubin, Eric J ^a,c   Gilmore, Michael S ^a,b   Walker, Suzanne ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Synthetic lethality; Tn seq; TraDIS

Indexed keywords

LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEICHOIC ACID; ALANINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSPOSON;

ALANYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPOUND GENE INTERACTION MAPPING; GENE INTERACTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ALANINE; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84906696524     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404099111     Document Type: Article

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