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SUBMITTER: Cote JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3370479 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Côté Jean-Philippe JP Berthiaume Frédéric F Houle Sébastien S Fairbrother John M JM Dozois Charles M CM Mourez Michael M
Applied and environmental microbiology 20120420 13
Autotransporters are a large family of virulence factors of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The autotransporter adhesin involved in diffuse adherence (AIDA-I) is an outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli, which allows binding to epithelial cells as well as the autoaggregation of bacteria. AIDA-I is glycosylated by a specific heptosyltransferase encoded by the aah gene that forms an operon with the aidA gene. aidA is highly prevalent in strains that cause disease in pigs. Nevertheless, the ...[more]