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Isolation of a temperature-sensitive dnaA mutant of Staphylococcus aureus
Nagamoto Murai et al. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2006 Jan.
Abstract
Of 750 temperature-sensitive mutants of Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus, one was complemented by the dnaA gene. This mutant had a single base transition in the dnaA gene causing the amino-acid substitution mutation, Ala40Thr. Phage transduction experiments showed that this temperature-sensitive phenotype was linked with a drug-resistant marker inserted near the dnaA gene, suggesting the dnaA mutation is responsible for the phenotype. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the dnaA mutant was unable to initiate DNA replication at a restrictive temperature and exhibited asynchrony in the replication initiation at a permissive temperature. This is the first report of a temperature-sensitive dnaA mutant in S. aureus, and the results show that DnaA is required for the initiation of chromosomal replication and for the regulation of synchrony in the bacterial cells.
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