Staphylococcus aureus Responds to the Central Metabolite Pyruvate To Regulate Virulence

Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile bacterial pathogen that can cause significant disease burden and mortality. Like other pathogens, S. aureus must adapt to its environment to produce virulence factors to survive the immune responses evoked by infection. Despite the importance of environmental sig...

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Main Authors: Lamia Harper, Divya Balasubramanian, Elizabeth A. Ohneck, William E. Sause, Jessica Chapman, Bryan Mejia-Sosa, Tenzin Lhakhang, Adriana Heguy, Aristotelis Tsirigos, Beatrix Ueberheide, Jeffrey M. Boyd, Desmond S. Lun, Victor J. Torres, Anthony R. Richardson, Paul Dunman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-01-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/9/1/e02272-17