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Evidence that the enterococcal polysaccharide antigen gene (epa) cluster is widespread in Enterococcus faecalis and influences resistance to phagocytic killing of E. faecalis.
Infection and immunity - 1 Apr 2002
Teng Fang, Jacques-Palaz Karen D, Weinstock George M, Murray Barbara E
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In previous studies, we cloned a cluster of genes involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis (epa) from Enterococcus faecalis strain OG1RF and showed that this gene cluster mediated synthesis of a polysaccharide in Escherichia coli. Disruption of two open reading frames in the epa gene cluster of OG...
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