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A key phenotypic characteristic of the Gram-positive bacterial pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, is its ability to grow in low aw environments. A homology transfer based approach, using the well characterised osmotic stress response systems of Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli, was used to identify putative osmotolerance loci in Staphylococcus aureus ST772-MRSA-V. A total of 17 distinct putative hyper and hypo-osmotic stress response systems, comprising 78 genes, were identified. The ST772-MRSA-V genome exhibits significant degeneracy in terms of the osmotic stress response; with three copies of opuD, two copies each of nhaK and mrp/mnh, and five copies of opp. Furthermore, regulation of osmotolerance in ST772-MRSA-V appears to be mediated at the transcriptional, translational, and post-translational levels. Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Dylan Casey, Roy D Sleator. A genomic analysis of osmotolerance in Staphylococcus aureus. Gene. 2021 Jan 30;767:145268

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