Article
Infection-derived Enterococcus faecalis strains are enriched in esp, a gene encoding a novel surface protein.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jan 1999
Shankar V, Baghdayan A S, Huycke M M, Lindahl G, Gilmore M S
Abstract excerpt
We report the identification of a new cell wall-associated protein of Enterococcus faecalis. Studies on the distribution of the gene encoding this novel surface protein, Esp, reveal a significant (P < 0.001) enrichment in infection-derived E. faecalis isolates. Interestingly, the esp gene was not...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Antigens, Surface
- Bacterial Proteins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Clone Cells
- Conserved Sequence
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data