Identification and phenotypic characterization of a second collagen adhesin, Scm, and genome-based identification and analysis of 13 other predicted MSCRAMMs, including four distinct pilus loci, in Enterococcus faecium

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3199-3211

  Sillanpää, Jouko ^a   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Prakash, Vittal P ^a   Qin, Xiang ^b   Höök, Magnus ^c   Weinstock, George M ^b   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ADHESIN OF COLLAGEN FROM ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ADHESIN OF COLLAGEN FROM ENTEROCOCCUS FAECUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; ENDOCARDITIS AND BIOFILM ASSOCIATED PILUS OF ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS PROTEIN; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS SURFACE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SECOND COLLAGEN ADHESIN OF ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SORTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; COLLAGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETA SHEET; BIOINFORMATICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FIMBRIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLLAGEN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55549148430     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/017319-0     Document Type: Article

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