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SUBMITTER: MacKenzie DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2781659 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
MacKenzie Donald A DA Tailford Louise E LE Hemmings Andrew M AM Juge Nathalie N
The Journal of biological chemistry 20090916 47
Lactobacillus reuteri mucus-binding protein (MUB) is a cell-surface protein that is involved in bacterial interaction with mucus and colonization of the digestive tract. The 353-kDa mature protein is representative of a broadly important class of adhesins that have remained relatively poorly characterized due to their large size and highly modular nature. MUB contains two different types of repeats (Mub1 and Mub2) present in six and eight copies, respectively, and shown to be responsible for the ...[more]