FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to biotechnology and microbiology and represents a method for identifying a cluster of antigens coding staphylococcal proteins that are exotoxins. The present method is implemented by performing a single multiple-primer polymerase chain reaction in two reaction mixtures, first of which contains primers to genes coding such staphylococcal proteins, as thermonuclease, beta-glucosidase in the species S.aureus, S.epidermidis, S.haemolyticus, S.lugdunensis, S.saprophyticus, and the second one - to set1, set2, set3, set4, set5 genes coding the exotoxins. That is followed by a comparative analysis of amplified gene fragments prepared in two sample aliquots and a positive control reference according to the identification table. The present invention also discloses a test system for implementing the above method, which contains DNA recovery components, PCR components, and result analysis components. The PCR components contain a 10-merous buffer solution, pH 8.4, deionised sterile water, one positive control reference, Taq polymerase, mixture of four dNTPs, mixture of primers No.1 containing epi-F, epi-R, aur-F, aur-R, hae-F, hae-R, lug-F, lug-R, sap-F, sap-R in a ratio of 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1, and a mixture of primers No. 2 containing set1-F, set1-R, set2-F, set2-R, set3-F, set3-R, set4-F, set4-R, set5-F, set5-R in a ratio of 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1.
EFFECT: invention enables recovering the cluster of genes coding the staphylococcal proteins, a molecular weight of which makes 25 to 35 kD consisting of almost 200 amino acid residues and having a tertiary structure high-homologous with some staphylococcus superantigens (enterotoxins, TSST-1 toxins) and with pyrogenous streptococcal exotoxin C.
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