Clonal Distribution and Phase-Variable Expression of a Major Histocompatibility Complex Analogue Protein in Staphylococcus aureus
- 15 April 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 187 (8) , 2917-9
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.187.8.2917-2919.2005
Abstract
The mapW gene of Staphylococcus aureus strain N315 contains a poly(A) tract which truncates translation of the protein. This study demonstrates that mapW is an allelic variant of the map/eap genes found in other strains and that the variation in the length of this poly(A) tract suggests that it is a contingency locus.Keywords
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