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Phenotypic characterization of xpr, a global regulator of extracellular virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 1993
Smeltzer M S, Hart M E, Iandolo J J
Abstract excerpt
We recently described a Tn551 insertion in the chromosome of Staphylococcus aureus S6C that resulted in drastically reduced expression of extracellular lipase (M. S. Smeltzer, S. R. Gill, and J. J. Iandolo, J. Bacteriol. 174:4000-4006, 1992). The insertion was localized to a chromosomal site (designated omega 1058) distinct from the lipase structural gene (geh) and the accessory gene regulator (agr), both of...
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