Novel cassette chromosome recombinases CcrA8B9 catalyse the excision and integration of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element.
Jinhe XiaoJianguo HuangXuemei XueChen WangYanting SunLiangjun ZhengXu ZhaoXiaokun WangXin ZhaoHuping XuePublished in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2022)
The novel Ccr recombinases CcrA8B9 can help excise and integrate SCCmec/SCC from the genome and provide a new way to facilitate the transmission of SCCmec/SCC elements among staphylococci.