| Literature DB >> 9919657 |
E R Wann1, B Dassy, J M Fournier, T J Foster.
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Staphylococcus aureus expresses at least eight distinct serotypes of capsular polysaccharide (CP). Gene clusters involved in the expression of serotypes 1, 5 and 8 have been cloned and sequenced. In this report we describe the isolation and analysis of serotype 5 capsular polysaccharide-defective mutants. A naturally occurring cap mutation in the laboratory strains 8325-4 and RN4220 was mapped to the cap5E gene by genetic complementation. The cap5H-K genes were shown to be responsible for CP5 serotype specificity by transduction and complementation.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 9919657 DOI： 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13360.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Microbiol Lett ISSN： 0378-1097 Impact factor: 2.742