The AirSR two-component system contributes to Staphylococcus aureus survival in human blood and transcriptionally regulates sspABC operon

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Hall, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Yang, Junshu ^a   Guo, Haiyong ^a   Ji, Yinduo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

AirSR (YhcSR); S. aureus; Staphopain B; Transcriptional regulation; V8 protease

Indexed keywords

AIRSR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OPSONIN; STAPHOPAIN B; STAPHOSTATIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; V8 PROTEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PURIFICATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SSPABC OPERON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ZYMOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84938876543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00682     Document Type: Article

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