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SUBMITTER: Hussain M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC97084 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hussain M M Peters G G Chhatwal G S GS Herrmann M M
Infection and immunity 19991201 12
To identify novel putative staphylococcal adhesins, lithium chloride extraction (an established method for selective surface molecule solubilization) was employed. N-terminal sequencing and functional assays identified a 42-kDa fibronectin-binding protein from Staphylococcus epidermidis as ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OCTase). However, OCTase was not recognizable extracellularly, and this fact together with the fact that LiCl induced DNA release and a decrease in viability suggests that LiCl ...[more]