The Staphylococcus aureus allelic genetic loci for serotype 5 and 8 capsule expression contain the type-specific genes flanked by common genes

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2395-2405

  Sau, Subrata ^a   Bhasin, Navneet ^b   Wann, Elisabeth R ^c   Lee, Jean C ^b   Foster, Timothy J ^c   Lee, Chia Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

cap5 and cap8 gene clusters; Capsule; Polysaccharide; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMINOSUGAR; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030738041     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-7-2395     Document Type: Article

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