Contribution of the nos-pdt operon to virulence phenotypes in methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Sapp, April M ^a   Mogen, Austin B ^a   Almand, Erin A ^b   Rivera, Frances E ^c   Shaw, Lindsey N ^c   Richardson, Anthony R ^d   Rice, Kelly C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLALANINE; PREPHENATE DEHYDRATASE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; CAROTENOID; DIACETYLDICHLOROFLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; METICILLIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOS GENE; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PDT GENE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METHICILLIN; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHENYLALANINE; PIGMENTATION; PREPHENATE DEHYDRATASE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907546606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108868     Document Type: Article

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