Characterization of Insertion Sequence ISSau2 in the Human and Livestock-Associated Staphylococcus aureus.

Mobile genetic elements play important roles in evolution and diversification of bacterial genomes. ISSau2 is 1660bp in length with terminal 5'-TG and CA-3' dinucleotides and has two overlapping reading frames orfA and orfB. It has been found in a wide range of S. aureus, such as HA-MRSA25...

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Main Authors: Liangliang Wang, Huping Xue, Longping Li, Xin Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4433286?pdf=render