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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-7-7
pubmed:abstractText
We describe a Tn551 chromosomal insertion in Staphylococcus aureus S6C that results in sharply reduced expression of extracellular lipase. With Tn917 as a probe, the insertion in the original mutant (KSI905) was localized to a 12.6-kb EcoRI DNA fragment. The 12.6-kb fragment was cloned and used as a probe to identify a 26-kb EcoRI fragment containing the Tn551 insertion site in the S6C parent strain. Restriction endonuclease analysis of the 12.6- and 26-kb EcoRI fragments confirmed that the Tn551 insertion in KSI905 was accompanied by a deletion of 18.7 kb of chromosomal DNA. Tn551 was transduced from KSI905 back into the S6C parent strain. All transductants exhibited the same lipase-negative (Lip-) phenotype and contained the same mutation with respect to both the insertion and the 18.7-kb deletion. The inability to produce lipase was not caused by disruption of the lipase structural gene, since all Lip- mutants carried intact copies of geh. Moreover, the Tn551 insertion was localized to a region of the staphylococcal chromosome at least 650 kb from geh. Taken together, these results suggest that the Tn551 insertion occurred in a region of the chromosome encoding a trans-active element required for the expression of extracellular lipase. A 20-bp oligonucleotide corresponding to a sequence within the region encoding RNA II near the Tn551 insertion site in ISP546 (H.L. Peng, R.P. Novick, B. Kreiswirth, J. Kornblum, and P. Schlievert, J. Bacteriol. 170:4365-4372, 1988) and a 1.75-kb DNA fragment representing the region encoding RNA III were used as gene probes to show that the Tn551 insertion did not occur in the agr locus. We conclude that the genetic element functions independently of agr or as an unrecognized part of that regulatory system.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0021-9193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
174
pubmed:geneSymbol
agr, geh
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4000-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Localization of a chromosomal mutation affecting expression of extracellular lipase in Staphylococcus aureus.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506-5605.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't