Article
Genetic analysis of the cap5 locus of Staphylococcus aureus.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jan 1999
Wann E R, Dassy B, Fournier J M, Foster T J
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Bacterial Capsules
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blotting, Southern
- Carbohydrate Sequence
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Restriction Mapping
- Serotyping
- Staphylococcus aureus