TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study

Strain	Relevant characteristic(s)	Source or reference
Staphylococcus aureus
No. 10	CC81 subtype 1, sea, seb, seh, sek, seq	42
01240	CC81 subtype 1, sea, seh, sek, seq	6
Nagasaki	CC81 subtype 1, sea, seb, seh, sek, seq	16
Hiroshima3	CC5, seg, sei, selj, sem, sen, seo, ser	6
IVM50	CC508, sec, seg, sei, sel, sem, sen, seo	15
01235	CC96, sea, sec, sel	6
Oita1	CC508, seg, sei, sem, sen, seo	6
11727	CC8, sea, sed, selj, ser	15
MW2	CC1, sea, sec, seh, sek, sel, seq	43
196E	CC not assigned, sea, sed, selj, ser	44
S6	CC not assigned, sea, seb, sek, seq	45
RN4220	Genetic manipulation strain	46
No. 10 ΔsarA	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarA pKAT	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarA pKAT::sarA	Complemented mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarS	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarS pWH1520	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarS pWH1520::sarS	Complemented mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarT	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarT pKAT	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarT pKAT::sarT	Complemented mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarU	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarU pKAT	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsarU pKAT::sarU	Complemented mutant	This study
No. 10 Δrot	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 Δrot pKAT	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 Δrot pKAT::rot	Complemented mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsaeR	Deletion mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsaeR pWH1520	Vector control mutant	This study
No. 10 ΔsaeR pWH1520::saeR	Complemented mutant	This study
Escherichia coli
DH5α	Cloning strain	TaKaRa
BL21(DE3)	Expression strain	Novagen