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SUBMITTER: Matsuo Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034283 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matsuo Yosuke Y Miyoshi Yukihiro Y Okada Sanae S Satoh Eiichi E
Bioscience of microbiota, food and health 20121025 4
A surface protein of Lactobacillus reuteri, mucus adhesion-promoting protein (MapA), is considered to be an adhesion factor. MapA is expressed in L. reuteri strains and adheres to piglet gastric mucus, collagen type I, and human intestinal epithelial cells such as Caco-2. The aim of this study was to identify molecules that mediate the attachment of MapA from L. reuteri to the intestinal epithelial cell surface by investigating the adhesion of MapA to receptor-like molecules on Caco-2 cells. Map ...[more]