Impaired respiration elicits SrrAB-dependent programmed cell lysis and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus

eLife

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Mashruwala, Ameya A ^a   van de Guchte, Adriana ^a   Boyd, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLA MUREIN HYDROLASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR DNA; MENAQUINONE; OXYGEN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SRRAB PROTEIN; TEICHOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FARNOQUINONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SRRA PROTEIN, STAPHYOLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SRRB PROTEIN, STAPHYOLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; BACTERIOLYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BIOFILMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VITAMIN K 2;

EID: 85017328153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.23845     Document Type: Article

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