| Literature DB >> 19429623 |
Thomas Kohler1, Christopher Weidenmaier, Andreas Peschel.
Abstract
Skin-colonizing gram-positive bacteria produce wall teichoic acids (WTAs) or related glycopolymers for unclear reasons. Using a WTA-deficient Staphylococcus aureus mutant, we demonstrated that WTA confers resistance to antimicrobial fatty acids from human sebaceous glands by preventing fatty acid binding. Thus, WTA is probably important for bacterial skin colonization.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19429623 PMCID: PMC2698495 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00221-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490