Article
Regulation of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 gene in Staphylococcus aureus.
Molecules and cells - 28 Feb 1997
Woo J H, Kim Y S, Hwang S D
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus produces various proteins in response to discrete signals from the external environment like many other pathogenic microorganisms. Certain staphylococcal exoproteins including toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) are secreted according to the stimuli from the environment, a...
Topics
- Bacterial Toxins
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Enterotoxins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Regulator
- Humans
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Phenotype
- Shock, Septic
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Superantigens
- Virulence