Heterogeneity in ess transcriptional organization and variable contribution of the Ess/Type VII protein secretion system to virulence across closely related Staphylocccus aureus strains

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 928-943

  Kneuper, Holger ^a   Cao, Zhen Ping ^a   Twomey, Kate B ^b   Zoltner, Martin ^a   Jäger, Franziska ^a   Cargill, James S ^a   Chalmers, James ^a   van der Kooi Pol, Magdalena M ^c   van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^c   Ryan, Robert P ^a,b   Hunter, William N ^a   Palmer, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESAA; PROTEIN ESAB; PROTEIN ESSA; PROTEIN ESSB; PROTEIN ESSC; PROTEIN ESXA; PROTEIN EXSA; PROTEIN EXSC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESAA GENE; ESS GENE; ESXA GENE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPE VII SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84906934249     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12707     Document Type: Article

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