ST9 MRSA strains carrying a variant of type IX SCCmec identified in the Thai community

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Table 1 ORFs of SCCmec in the S. aureusstrain O-2 compared to S. aureusJCSC6943 and S. haemolyticusJCSC1435

ORFs	Genes	Description of products	% identity to type IX SCC mec in S. aureusJCSC6943^a	% identity to S. haemolyticusJCSC1435
KK01	orfx	hypothetical protein	97	80
KK02		hypothetical protein, similar to modification methylase LlaFI	<50	51.8
KK03		hypothetical protein, similar to[truncated]modification methylase LlaFI	<50	50.3
KK04		hypothetical protein, similar to restriction enzyme LlaFI	<50	<50
KK05		hypothetical protein	52	83
KK06		hypothetical protein	65	86.3
KK07		hypothetical protein	78	61.9
KK08		hypothetical protein	85	83
KK09		hypothetical protein	<50	51.6
KK10	ccrB1	cassette chromosome recombinase B1	91	50
KK11	ccrA1	cassette chromosome recombinase A1	93	<50
KK12		hypothetical protein	81	51.1
KK13		hypothetical protein	61	<50
KK14		hypothetical protein	95	<50
KK15	tnp	IS431 transposase	97.5	99.1
KK16		[truncated]putative HMG-CoAsynthase	100	83
KK17		Glycerophosphoryl diester phosphodiesterase	100	100
KK18		hypothetical protein	100	100
KK19	mecA	penicillin-binding protein 2'	100	100
KK20	tnp	transposase for IS431	100	98
KK21	tnp	Tn916, transposase	<50	<50
KK22		Tn916, hypothetical protein	<50	<50
KK23		Tn916, transcriptional regulator	<50	50
KK24	tetM	tetracycline resistance protein TetM	<50	<50
KK25		hypothetical protein	<50	52.5
KK26	cadD	cadmium binding protein	96	94
KK27	cadX	cadmium resistant accessory protein	96	77
KK28	arsC	arsenate reductase	93	82
KK29	arsB	arsenic efflux pump protein	88	73
KK30	arsR	arsenical resistance operon repressor	100	97
KK31	copA	copper-exporting ATPase	98	67
KK32		putative lipoprotein	92	98

ORFs, KK1-KK24 and KK25-32 are from nucleotide sequences deposited at the DDBJ/EMBL/ GenBank databases under accession nos. AB705452 and AB705453, respectively.
^a % identities of less than 50% were expressed as <50%.

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