Article
The Staphylococcus aureus Alternative Sigma Factor ς B Controls the Environmental Stress Response but Not Starvation Survival or Pathogenicity in a Mouse Abscess Model
1 Dec 1998
Abstract excerpt
The role of sigmaB, an alternative sigma factor of Staphylococcus aureus, has been characterized in response to environmental stress, starvation-survival and recovery, and pathogenicity. sigmaB was mainly expressed during the stationary phase of growth and was repressed by 1 M sodium chloride. A sigB insertionally inactivated mutant was created. In stress resistance studies, sigmaB was shown to be involved in...