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J Bacteriol. 1994 September; 176(18): 5871–5873. | PMCID: PMC196797 |
A lipoprotein signal peptide encoded by the staphylococcal conjugative plasmid pSK41 exhibits an activity resembling that of Enterococcus faecalis pheromone cAD1. N Firth, P D Fink, L Johnson, and R A Skurray School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Abstract The traH gene of the staphylococcal conjugative plasmid pSK41 has recently been shown to encode a lipoprotein (N. Firth, K. P. Ridgway, M. E. Byrne, P. D. Fink, L. Johnson, I. T. Paulsen, and R. A. Skurray, Gene 136:13-25, 1993). Here we report that traH encodes a product recognized as a pheromone by Enterococcus faecalis cells harboring the conjugative plasmid pAD1. The mature traH product is not essential for this phenomenon, as expression of pheromone-like activity was found to require sequences encoding only the pro-TraH signal peptide. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (572K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Clewell DB, An FY, White BA, Gawron-Burke C. Streptococcus faecalis sex pheromone (cAM373) also produced by Staphylococcus aureus and identification of a conjugative transposon (Tn918). J Bacteriol. 1985 Jun;162(3):1212–1220. [PubMed]
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