The N-terminal domain of the thermo-regulated surface protein PrpA of Enterococcus faecium binds to fibrinogen, fibronectin and platelets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Prieto, Ana M Guzmán ^a   Urbanus, Rolf T ^a   Zhang, Xinglin ^a   Bierschenk, Damien ^a   Koekman, C Arnold ^a   Van Luit Asbroek, Miranda ^a   Ouwerkerk, Janneke P ^a   Pape, Marieke ^a   Paganelli, Fernanda L ^a   Wobser, Dominique ^b   Huebner, Johannes ^b,c   Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a   Van Schaik, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN BINDING;

BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOOD PLATELETS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84950291577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18255     Document Type: Article

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