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. 1972 Nov;112(2):761-72.
doi: 10.1128/jb.112.2.761-772.1972.

Genetic studies on plasmid-linked cadmium resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

K Smith, R P Novick

Genetic studies on plasmid-linked cadmium resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

K Smith et al. J Bacteriol. 1972 Nov.

Abstract

The genetic basis of cadmium resistance conferred by three penicillinase plasmids, PI(524), PI(258), and PII(147), of Staphylococcus aureus was examined by mutation, recombination, and deletion analysis. Three separate loci were identified: cadA, responsible for high-level resistance; cadB, giving a low-level resistance, nonadditive to cadA; and mad, a locus marginally decreasing the cadmium resistance of plasmid-positive staphylococci. The loci cadA and mad were present on all three plasmids, but cadB was only found on PII(147). Spontaneous deletions of mad involved up to three-fourths of the plasmid genome, which allowed derivation of a partial deletion map of PII(147), a plasmid with a contour length of 10.9 mum, corresponding to a molecular weight of 20.4 x 10(6).

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