Staphylococcus aureus coordinates leukocidin expression and pathogenesis by sensing metabolic fluxes via RpiRc

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Divya ^a   Ohneck, Elizabeth A ^a   Chapman, Jessica ^a   Weiss, Andy ^b   Kim, Min Kyung ^c   Reyes Robles, Tamara ^a   Zhong, Judy ^a   Shaw, Lindsey N ^b   Lun, Desmond S ^c   Ueberheide, Beatrix ^a   Shopsin, Bo ^a   Torres, Victor J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCIDIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RPIRC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGR PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUKED GENE; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PVL GENE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLOME; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; PROTEOME; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEPSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84979021167     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00818-16     Document Type: Article

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