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Mutation of RNA polymerase beta subunit (rpoB) promotes hVISA-to-VISA phenotypic conversion of strain Mu3.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2011
Matsuo Miki, Hishinuma Tomomi, Katayama Yuki, Cui Longzhu, Kapi Maria, Hiramatsu Keiichi
Abstract excerpt
The clinical vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) strain Mu50 carries two mutations in the vraSR and graRS two-component regulatory systems (TCRSs), namely, vraS(I5N) and graR(N197S) (hereinafter designated graR). The clinical heterogeneously vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) strain Mu3 shares with Mu50 the mutation in vraS that encodes the VraS two-component histidine kinase. Previously,...
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