Sentence examples for capsule type from inspiring English sources
"China chose the capsule type, which Japan could also develop in relatively short period of time," Yasunori Matogawa, a spokesman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said on the state-run NHK television.
Most clinical isolates of S. aureus express either capsule type 5 (CP5) or 8 (CP8).
This includes agr (group II rather than III), genes encoding the capsule type (5 rather than 8), the egc enterotoxin gene cluster, and the enterotoxin homologue ORF CM14.
According to several experimental studies based on the construction of chimeric pneumococcal mutants with a switched capsular type, the capsule type is not the only determinant of pathogenicity [41], [42].
Differences to other CC8 strains include the affiliation to capsule type 5, the alleles of aur, clfB and isaB and the presence of cna, while other markers (such as agr group I alleles, ssl/set genes etc).
SAB2421 shows some homology (30% amino acid identity) to pyrogenic exotoxin G (SpeG) of Streptococcus pyogenes, while the gene encoded by SAB0026 shares 97% amino acid identity to an enterotoxin identified in the capsule type 1-associated cassette chromosome element SCCcap1 that has not been identified in a fully sequenced SA isolate previously.
Isolates could not be assigned to capsule types 1, 5 or 8.
A review by Whitfield expands the description of the different capsule types and segregates them into specific Groups based on their characteristic structures [30].
The effect appeared to be general among pneumococci, as over 25 pneumococcal strains of nine different capsule types were equally sensitive to HAMLET-induced death (Table 1).
Based on the results of our phage assays, we hypothesized that C7 acts on a step in capsule assembly or export that is common to both K1 and K5 capsule types.
Isolates did not yield signals with probes for capH, capI, capJ and capK genes corresponding to the capsule types 1, 5 or 8, in either the primer directed, or the random amplification protocols.
