The Nebraska Transposon Mutant Library consists entirely of variants of the USA300 strain of this organism.
The Nebraska Transposon Mutant Library consists entirely of variants of the USA300 strain of this organism. A protein from this organism tightly binds Fc (F-C) and is used to purify antibodies in "protein A chromatography." This organism is DNAse (D-N-"ace") positive, agglutinates (ag-"GLUE"-tin-ates)  brinogen ("fie"-BRIN-oh-jen) into  brin (FIB-rin) with coagulase (koh-AG-yoo-"lace"), and ferments mannitol to an acid that makes "phenol (FEE-nol) red" turn yellow. This organism's cassette chromosome encodes a transpeptidase called PÂ·BÂ·PÂ·2Â·a. Pathogenicity islands in this organism encode the antigen for toxic shock syndrome. This Gram-positive bacterium is named because it grows in golden colonies. It has recently acquired resistance to vancomycin (vank-oh-MY-sin) in addition to beta-lactam antibiotics like methicillin (meth-ih-SILL-in). For 10 points, name this superbug that causes Staph infections.
The Nebraska Transposon Mutant Library consists entirely of variants of the USA300 strain of this organism.
Staphylococcus aureus [or Staph aureus; or S. aureus; accept methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA; prompt on "Staphylococcus" or "aureus"; prompt on "Staph" before "Staph"]