Location of the <i>psm-mec</i> gene in SCC<i>mec</i> elements of types II and III.
- Shu Y. Queck (361088)
- Burhan A. Khan (371490)
- Rong Wang (59795)
- Thanh-Huy L. Bach (371492)
- Dorothee Kretschmer (317615)
- Liang Chen (73736)
- Barry N. Kreiswirth (95750)
- Andreas Peschel (33130)
- Frank R. DeLeo (95751)
- Michael Otto (40636)
Publication date
February 2013
DOIAbstract
<p>Type II and III SCC<i>mec</i> elements are shown on the top, based on Genbank accession numbers D86934 (strain <i>S. aureus</i> N315, type II) and AB037671 (type III) <a href="http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000533#ppat.1000533-Ito1" target="_blank">[14]</a>. The essential <i>mec</i> (methicillin resistance and regulation) and <i>ccr</i> (recombinase) genes are shown in color, other accessory elements are in grey. The region that contains the <i>psm-mec</i> gene and the overlapping <i>fudoh</i> locus <a href="http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000533#ppat.1000533-Kaito1" target="_blank">[39]</a> is magnified at the bottom. SD, Shine-Dalgarno sequence.</p