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The giant protein Ebh is a determinant of Staphylococcus aureus cell size and complement resistance.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2014
Cheng Alice G, Missiakas Dominique, Schneewind Olaf
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus USA300, the clonal type associated with epidemic community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections, displays the giant protein Ebh on its surface. Mutations that disrupt the ebh reading frame increase the volume of staphylococcal cells and alter the cross wall, a membrane-enclosed peptidoglycan synthesis and assembly compartment. S. aureus ebh variants display increased...
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