The terminal A domain of the fibrillar accumulation-associated protein (Aap) of Staphylococcus epidermidis mediates adhesion to human corneocytes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7007-7016

  Macintosh, Robin L ^a   Brittan, Jane L ^b   Bhattacharya, Ritwika ^a   Jenkinson, Howard F ^b   Derrick, Jeremy ^a   Upton, Mathew ^c   Handley, Pauline S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER; CELL ADHESION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEOCYTE; EPIDERMIS CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDERMIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 70350447804     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00764-09     Document Type: Article

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