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CtaA ofStaphylococcus aureusIs Required for Starvation Survival, Recovery, and Cytochrome Biosynthesis
15 Jan 1999
Abstract excerpt
A Staphylococcus aureus mutant (SPW3) apparently unable to survive long-term starvation was shown to have a transposon insertion within a gene homologous to ctaA of Bacillus subtilis which encodes a heme A synthase. Analysis of the cytochrome profiles of SPW3 revealed the absence of heme A-containing cytochromes compared to the parental 8325-4 strain. SPW3 demonstrated a 100-fold reduction in the ability to...
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