Amino Acid Catabolism in <italic toggle="yes">Staphylococcus aureus</italic> and the Function of Carbon Catabolite Repression

ABSTRACT Staphylococcus aureus must rapidly adapt to a variety of carbon and nitrogen sources during invasion of a host. Within a staphylococcal abscess, preferred carbon sources such as glucose are limiting, suggesting that S. aureus survives through the catabolism of secondary carbon sources. S. a...

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Main Authors: Cortney R. Halsey, Shulei Lei, Jacqueline K. Wax, Mckenzie K. Lehman, Austin S. Nuxoll, Laurey Steinke, Marat Sadykov, Robert Powers, Paul D. Fey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-03-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01434-16