Evaluation of Staphylococcus aureus lipoproteins: Role in nutritional acquisition and pathogenicity

Bacterial lipoproteins (Lpp) represent a major class of membrane proteins. They are distinguished by a lipid moiety at the N-terminus by which they are anchored either in the outer leaflet of the cytoplasmic membrane or, in Gram-negative bacteria, also in the inner leaflet of the outer membrane. In...

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Main Authors: Shideh Vatani Shahmirzadi, Minh Thu Nguyen, Friedrich Götz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01404/full