Molecular Piracy via Capsid Size Determination by Staphylococcus aureus Pathogenicity Island 1
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Competing scaffolding proteins determine capsid size during mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands
Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands (SaPIs), such as SaPI1, exploit specific helper bacteriophages, like 80α, for their high frequency mobilization, a process termed 'molecular piracy'. SaPI1 redirects the helper's assembly pathway to form small capsids that can only accommodate the smaller SaPI1 genome, but not a complete phage genome. SaPI1 encodes two proteins, CpmA and CpmB, that ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microscopy and Microanalysis
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1431-9276,1435-8115
DOI: 10.1017/s143192761100153x