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Identification And Characterization Of Farr And Fare As A Regulator And Effector Of Fatty Acid Resistance In Staphylococcus Aureus, Heba Alnaseri
Identification And Characterization Of Farr And Fare As A Regulator And Effector Of Fatty Acid Resistance In Staphylococcus Aureus, Heba Alnaseri
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Although Staphylococcus aureus is exposed to antimicrobial fatty acids on the skin, in nasal secretions and in abscesses, specific mechanisms for regulating gene expression and intrinsic resistance in response to these fatty acids have not been reported. Through in vitro selection for increased resistance of S. aureus to linoleic acid, I identified fatty acid resistant clone FAR7, where a single nucleotide polymorphism caused a His121Tyr substitution in an uncharacterized member of the TetR family of transcriptional regulators, which is divergently transcribed from a gene encoding a member of the resistance-nodulation-division superfamily of multi-drug efflux pumps. I named these …