Inhibition of Enterococcus faecium adherence to collagen by antibodies against high-affinity binding subdomains of Acm. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Strains of Enterococcus faecium express a cell wall-anchored protein, Acm, which mediates adherence to collagen. Here, we (i) identify the minimal and high-affinity binding subsegments of Acm and (ii) show that anti-Acm immunoglobulin Gs (IgGs) purified against these subsegments reduced E. faecium TX2535 strain collagen adherence up to 73 and 50%, respectively, significantly more than the total IgGs against the full-length Acm A domain (28%) (P < 0.0001). Blocking Acm adherence with functional subsegment-specific antibodies raises the possibility of their use as therapeutic or prophylactic agents.

published proceedings

  • Infect Immun

author list (cited authors)

  • Nallapareddy, S. R., Sillanp, J., Ganesh, V. K., Hk, M., & Murray, B. E.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R||Sillanpää, Jouko||Ganesh, Vannakambadi K||Höök, Magnus||Murray, Barbara E

publication date

  • June 2007