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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Micron. 2021 Aug 5;150:103137. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2021.103137

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

(A) Aggregation of S. aureus strains after 90 min incubation with host ligands under shear conditions of ≈ 8 dyn/cm2. (B) Percentage difference of clumping relative to control conditions (ligand free) in the presence of soluble host proteins fibronectin (Fn) and fibrinogen (Fg). Wild type S. aureus strain 8325 expresses both FnBPA and FnBPB. Mutants of 8325 express exclusively FnBPA or FnBPB. Mutant DU 5883 does not express FnBPA nor FnBPB. Results shown are the means ± standard deviation of at least three independent experiments. For every experiment, an independent, fresh preparation of each strain was used. p-values were calculated using t-test where p < 0.05 is indicated by *.