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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3340166 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gonzalez David J DJ Okumura Cheryl Y CY Hollands Andrew A Kersten Roland R Akong-Moore Kathryn K Pence Morgan A MA Malone Cheryl L CL Derieux Jaclyn J Moore Bradley S BS Horswill Alexander R AR Dixon Jack E JE Dorrestein Pieter C PC Nizet Victor V
The Journal of biological chemistry 20120227 17
Staphylococcus aureus causes a wide range of human disease ranging from localized skin and soft tissue infections to potentially lethal systemic infections. S. aureus has the biosynthetic ability to generate numerous virulence factors that assist in circumventing the innate immune system during disease pathogenesis. Recent studies have uncovered a set of extracellular peptides produced by community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) with homology to the phenol-soluble modulins ...[more]