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Pleiotrophic effects of 2 Enterococcus faecalis sagA-like genes, salA and salB, which encode proteins that are antigenic during human infection, on biofilm formation and binding to collagen type i and fibronectin.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Jan 2006
Mohamed Jamal A, Teng Fang, Nallapareddy Sreedhar R, Murray Barbara E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We have shown previously that Enterococcus faecium SagA has broad-spectrum binding to extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. In the present study, 2 sagA-like genes, salA and salB, were identified in Enterococcus faecalis. METHODS: We compared the salA and salB mutants; their parental strain, OG1RF; and the salB-complemented strain for binding to ECM proteins and biofilm formation. RESULTS: The salB...
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