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. 1993 Dec;61(12):4994–5000. doi: 10.1128/iai.61.12.4994-5000.1993

Identification of the surface component of Streptococcus defectivus that mediates extracellular matrix adherence.

R C Tart 1, I van de Rijn 1
PMCID: PMC281274  PMID: 8225574

Abstract

Bacterial attachment to host tissue is considered to be a crucial primary step in pathogen infection. Previous studies have shown that Streptococcus defectivus adheres specifically to cell-secreted extracellular matrix (ECM). Though generally not exposed in vivo, this host tissue is exposed at endothelial cell junctions and sites of tissue injury. In this report, we identify a ca. 200-kDa surface protein of S. defectivus involved in ECM adherence. Nitrous acid-derived mutant strains that were unable to bind ECM and which failed to adsorb adhesin-specific antibody from polyclonal inhibitory sera were isolated. A surface protein (ca. 200 kDa) was absent from ECM-nonadherent mutants, indicating its involvement in ECM attachment. Additionally, affinity-purified antibody to the ca. 200-kDa protein inhibited whole-cell S. defectivus ECM attachment, whereas antibody to the same region of the nonadherent mutant cell wall-associated protein profile did not. Furthermore, solubilized cell wall-associated protein extracts of parent but not mutant strains bound ECM, confirming the significance of this protein in ECM adherence. Therefore, we propose that the ca. 200-kDa protein is the major S. defectivus surface component that mediates the ECM attachment of these organisms.

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