A Novel Repressor of the ica Locus Discovered in Clinically Isolated Super-Biofilm-Elaborating Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus TF2758 is a clinical isolate from an atheroma and a super-biofilm-elaborating/polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA)/poly-N-acetylglucosamine (PNAG)-overproducing strain (L. Shrestha et al., Microbiol Immunol 60:148–159, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1111/1348-0421.12359). A mic...

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Main Authors: Liansheng Yu, Junzo Hisatsune, Ikue Hayashi, Nobuyuki Tatsukawa, Yusuke Sato’o, Emiri Mizumachi, Fuminori Kato, Hideki Hirakawa, Gerald B. Pier, Motoyuki Sugai, Steven J. Projan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-01-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/1/e02282-16