Genetic diversity of staphylocoagulase genes (coa): Insight into the evolution of variable chromosomal virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Watanabe, Shinya ^a,d   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Sasaki, Takashi ^a   Li, Shanshuang ^a   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^b   Kishii, Kozue ^a,e   Kikuchi, Ken ^a   Skov, Robert Leo ^c   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; DNA; METICILLIN; PROTHROMBIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; CONCATENATED DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MONOPHYLY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COAGULASE; DNA, CONCATENATED; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 66349112420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005714     Document Type: Article

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