Mechanism of gene regulation by a staphylococcus aureus toxin

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Joo, Hwang Soo ^a   Chatterjee, Som S ^a,c   Villaruz, Amer E ^a   Dickey, Seth W ^a   Tan, Vee Y ^a   Chen, Yan ^a,d   Sturdevant, Daniel E ^b   Ricklefs, Stacy M ^b   Otto, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL DELTA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PMTA GENE; PMTB GENE; PMTC GENE; PMTD GENE; PMTR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84994389299     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01579-16     Document Type: Article

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