| Literature DB >> 15601723 |
Yoshikane Itoh1, Xin Wang, B Joseph Hinnebusch, James F Preston, Tony Romeo.
Abstract
Polymeric beta-1,6-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (poly-beta-1,6-GlcNAc) has been implicated as an Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm adhesin, the formation of which requires the pgaABCD and icaABCD loci, respectively. Enzymatic hydrolysis of poly-beta-1,6-GlcNAc, demonstrated for the first time by chromatography and mass spectrometry, disrupts biofilm formation by these species and by Yersinia pestis and Pseudomonas fluorescens, which possess pgaABCD homologues.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15601723 PMCID: PMC538831 DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.1.382-387.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490