Clp ATPases are required for stress tolerance, intracellular replication and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1445-1462

  Frees, Dorte ^a   Chastanet, Arnaud ^b   Qazi, Saara ^c   Sørensen, Karen ^a   Hill, Philip ^c   Msadek, Tarek ^b   Ingmer, Hanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; CLP ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 100; PROTEIN CLPB; PROTEIN CLPC; PROTEIN CLPL; PROTEIN CTSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE REPLICATION; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOFILMS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 9644274213     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04368.x     Document Type: Article

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