Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms within the cps Loci: Another Potential Source of Clinically Important Genetic Variation for Streptococcus pneumoniae?
Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms within the cps Loci: Another Potential Source of Clinically Important Genetic Variation for Streptococcus pneumoniae?
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cps 位点内的单核苷酸多态性:肺炎链球菌临床重要遗传变异的另一个潜在来源?
DOI:
10.1128/iai.00374-21
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Brown JS
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Brown JS
The Streptococcus pneumoniae capsule is essential for disease pathogenesis, suggesting that even minor genetic changes within thecpslocus could potentially have important consequences. Arends et al. (D. W. Arends, W. R. Miellet, J. D. Langereis, T. H. A. Ederveen, et al., Infect Immun 89:e00246-21, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00246-21) have identified 79 different nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in thecpslocus of 338 19A serotype strains and shown significant variations between strains in nucleotide sugar content and capsule shedding. Further work is required to characterize whether any of these changes have important functional consequences on capsule-host interactions.
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