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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Nov 5;11(1):25–30. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00439

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Schematic of wall teichoic acids shielding cell wall epitopes from opsonins in S. aureus. K(FITC)-LPETG incorporated into the cell wall of S. aureus by sortase A is inaccessible to antibodies unless WTAs are depleted by tunicamycin treatment or by deletion of genes in the WTA biosynthetic pathway.