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Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea

In the past decade, community-associated (CA-) infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged throughout the world. Different CA-MRSA strains dominate in different geographical locations. Many CA-MRSA lineages contain genes coding for the Pantón-Valentine leukocidin....

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Autores principales: Chen, Yan, Chatterjee, Som S., Porcella, Stephen F., Yu, Yun-Song, Otto, Michael
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072803
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author Chen, Yan
Chatterjee, Som S.
Porcella, Stephen F.
Yu, Yun-Song
Otto, Michael
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Chatterjee, Som S.
Porcella, Stephen F.
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Otto, Michael
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description In the past decade, community-associated (CA-) infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged throughout the world. Different CA-MRSA strains dominate in different geographical locations. Many CA-MRSA lineages contain genes coding for the Pantón-Valentine leukocidin. However, the role of this leukotoxin in CA-MRSA pathogenesis is still controversial. The genome sequences of two key PVL-positive CA-MRSA strains (USA300, USA400) have been reported, but we lack information on the more recently found PVL-negative CA-MRSA strains. One such strain is the PVL-negative ST72, the main cause of CA-MRSA infections in Korea. Here, we report the entire genome sequence of CA-MRSA ST72 and analyze its gene content with a focus on virulence factors. Our results show that this strain does not have considerable differences in virulence factor content compared to other CA-MRSA strains (USA300, USA400), indicating that other toxins do not substitute for the lack of PVL in ST72. This finding is in accordance with the notion that differential expression of widespread virulence determinants, rather than the acquisition of additional virulence factors on mobile genetic elements, such as PVL, is responsible for the increased virulence of CA- compared to hospital-associated MRSA.
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spelling pubmed-37480192013-08-23 Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea Chen, Yan Chatterjee, Som S. Porcella, Stephen F. Yu, Yun-Song Otto, Michael PLoS One Research Article In the past decade, community-associated (CA-) infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged throughout the world. Different CA-MRSA strains dominate in different geographical locations. Many CA-MRSA lineages contain genes coding for the Pantón-Valentine leukocidin. However, the role of this leukotoxin in CA-MRSA pathogenesis is still controversial. The genome sequences of two key PVL-positive CA-MRSA strains (USA300, USA400) have been reported, but we lack information on the more recently found PVL-negative CA-MRSA strains. One such strain is the PVL-negative ST72, the main cause of CA-MRSA infections in Korea. Here, we report the entire genome sequence of CA-MRSA ST72 and analyze its gene content with a focus on virulence factors. Our results show that this strain does not have considerable differences in virulence factor content compared to other CA-MRSA strains (USA300, USA400), indicating that other toxins do not substitute for the lack of PVL in ST72. This finding is in accordance with the notion that differential expression of widespread virulence determinants, rather than the acquisition of additional virulence factors on mobile genetic elements, such as PVL, is responsible for the increased virulence of CA- compared to hospital-associated MRSA. Public Library of Science 2013-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3748019/ /pubmed/23977354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072803 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain declaration, which stipulates that, once placed in the public domain, this work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose.
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Chen, Yan
Chatterjee, Som S.
Porcella, Stephen F.
Yu, Yun-Song
Otto, Michael
Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title_full Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title_fullStr Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title_full_unstemmed Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title_short Complete Genome Sequence of a Pantón-Valentine Leukocidin-Negative Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain of Sequence type 72 from Korea
title_sort complete genome sequence of a pantón-valentine leukocidin-negative community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus strain of sequence type 72 from korea
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072803
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