The ORFeome of Staphylococcus aureus v 1.1.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus causes significant morbidity and mortality in humans, primarily due to the emergence of strains that are resistant to antibiotics - notably methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates. Development of effective strategies for the control and treatment of MRSA infections may best be achieved through 'omics' approaches, which first requires cloning the entire set of S. aureus' protein-encoding open reading frames (ORFs), or ORFeome.

Results

The complete genome sequence of S. aureus strain Mu50 has 2697 predicted protein-coding ORFs. Based on the sequence of this strain we designed PCR primers to construct from an S. aureus (non-MRSA) clinical isolate an ORFeome library that contains 2562 unique Gateway entry clones (95% coverag

SUBMITTER: Brandner CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2474624 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature