Identification of the amino acids essential for LytSR-mediated signal transduction in Staphylococcus aureus and their roles in biofilm-specific gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 723-737

  Lehman, Mckenzie K ^a   Bose, Jeffrey L ^a   Sharma Kuinkel, Batu K ^a   Moormeier, Derek E ^a   Endres, Jennifer L ^a   Sadykov, Marat R ^a   Biswas, Indranil ^b   Bayles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYTR PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; LYTS PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LRGAB GENE; LYTR GENE; LYTS GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922590538     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12902     Document Type: Article

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