Protein-based biofilm matrices in staphylococci

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Speziale, Pietro ^a   Pietrocola, Giampiero ^a   Foster, Timothy ^b   Geoghegan, Joan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

biofilm; cell wall anchored proteins; extracellular proteins; homophilic interactions; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CELL WALL ANCHORED PROTEIN; CLUMPING FACTOR B; FIBRINOGEN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE ASPARTATE REPEAT PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VACCINE; SURFACE PROTEIN C; SURFACE PROTEIN G; SURFACE PROTEIN P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; BIOFILM ASSOCIATED INFECTION; CELL INTERACTION; DEVICE INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; HUMANS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84915786068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00171     Document Type: Review

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