Identification and preliminary characterization of cell-wall-anchored proteins of Staphylococcus epidermidis

• Main Authors: M. Gabriela Bowden, Wei Chen, Jenny Singvall, Yi Xu, Sharon J. Peacock, Viviana Valtulina, Pietro Speziale, Magnus Höök
• Other Authors: Texas A and M University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/16588
• Institution: Mahidol University

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a ubiquitous human skin commensal that has emerged as a major cause of foreign-body infections. Eleven genes encoding putative cell-wall-anchored proteins were identified by computer analysis of the publicly available S. epidermidis unfinished genomic sequence. Four gen...