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Clonal distribution and phase-variable expression of a major histocompatibility complex analogue protein in Staphylococcus aureus.

Buckling A, Neilson J, Lindsay J, ffrench-Constant R, Enright M, Day N, Massey RC

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd., Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.

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.

Published 4 April 2005 in J Bacteriol, 187(8): 2917-9.
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