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Salicylic acid enhances Staphylococcus aureus extracellular adhesin protein expression.
Microbes and infection - 1 Nov 2011
Alvarez Lucía P, Barbagelata María S, Cheung Ambrose L, Sordelli Daniel O, Buzzola Fernanda R
Abstract excerpt
One of the virulence factors required by Staphylococcus aureus at the early stages of infection is Eap, a secreted adhesin that binds many host proteins and is upregulated by the two-component regulatory system saeRS. The S. aureus Newman strain harbors a mutation in saeS that is thought to be responsible for the high level of Eap expression in this strain. This study was designed to ascertain whether salicylic...
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