Table 6. Presence of exoenzyme genes in the 24 Staphylococcus isolates of this study.
| Virulence factor | Related genes | S. aureus (n = 4) | S. agnetis (n = 4) | S. chromogenes (n = 8) | S. simulans (n = 8) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalase | katA | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 100% (8) | 100% (8) |
| Staphylocoagulase | coa | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 |
| Glyseraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase | gapA1, gapA2 | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 100% (8) | 100% (8) |
| Hyaluronate lyase (Hyaluronidase) | hysA | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 |
| von Willebrand factor binding protein | vwb | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 100% (8) | 0 |
| Staphylokinase | sak | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thermonuclease | nuc | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 100% (8) | 100% (8) |
| Zinc metalloproteinase aureolysin | aur | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 100% (8) | 0 |
| Glutamyl endopeptidase (V8 protease) | sspA | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Staphopain A and B (Cysteine proteinase A and B) | sspP (scpA) | 100% (4) | 100% (4) | 0 | 87.5% (7) |
| sspB | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Staphostatin B (Cysteine protease inhibitor B) | sspC | 100% (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Notes.
a
Discrepancies observed in combined automatic annotation and pan-genome data; corrected using BLAST analysis.
b
Discrepancies observed in combined automatic annotation and pan-genome data.