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SUBMITTER: Hadley RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5762273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hadley Rose C RC Gagnon Derek M DM Brophy Megan Brunjes MB Gu Yu Y Nakashige Toshiki G TG Britt R David RD Nolan Elizabeth M EM
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20171220 1
Human calprotectin (CP, S100A8/S100A9 oligomer) is a metal-sequestering host-defense protein that prevents bacterial acquisition of Mn(II). In this work, we investigate Mn(II) competition between CP and two solute-binding proteins that Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae, Gram-positive bacterial pathogens of significant clinical concern, use to obtain Mn(II) when infecting a host. Biochemical and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic analyses demonstrate that CP outc ...[more]