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The Staphylococcus aureus SrrAB two-component system promotes resistance to nitrosative stress and hypoxia.
mBio - 12 Nov 2013
Kinkel Traci L, Roux Christelle M, Dunman Paul M, Fang Ferric C
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Staphylococcus aureus is both a commensal and a pathogen of the human host. Survival in the host environment requires resistance to host-derived nitric oxide (NO·). However, S. aureus lacks the NO·-sensing transcriptional regulator NsrR that is used by many bacteria to sense and respond to NO·. In this study, we show that S. aureus is able to sense and respond to both NO· and hypoxia by means of the...
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