| BSL-2 | biosafety level 2 |
| COG | clusters of orthologous groups |
| ICP-MS | inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LDS | lithium dodecyl sulphate |
| MS | mass spectrometry |
| OD600 | optical density at 600 nm |
| PAGE | polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
| PBPs | penicillin binding proteins |
| PSSM | position specific scoring matrix |
| ROS | reactive oxygen species |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute 1640 medium |
| SILAC | stable isotope labeling of amino acids in cell culture |
| ST | sequence type |
| TCA | tricarboxylic acid |