Amino acid polymorphisms in the fibronectin-binding repeats of fibronectin-binding protein A affect bond strength and fibronectin conformation

Casillas-Ituarte, NN; Cruz, CHB; Lins, RD; DiBartola, AC; Howard, J; Liang, XW; Hook, M; Viana, IFT; Sierra-Hernandez, MR; Lower, SK

Lower, SK (reprint author), Ohio State Univ, 125 S Oval Mall,275 Mendenhall Lab, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.; Lins, RD (reprint author), Av Prof Moraes Rego S-N,Campus UFPE, BR-50740465 Recife, PE, Brazil.

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 2017; 292 (21): 8797

Abstract

The Staphylococcus aureus cell surface contains cell wall anchored proteins such as fibronectin-binding protein A (FnBPA) that bind to host ligands (e......

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