The Enterococcal Surface Protein, Esp, Is Involved in Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Formation

By Alejandro Toledo‐Arana, Jaione Valle, C. Solano, M. Arrizubieta, C. Cucarella, M. Lamata, B. Amorena, J. Leiva, J. Penadés, Í. Lasa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2001

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Periodontics

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4. Sirijan Santajit

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Citations in the corpus

• Insights on Evolution of Virulence and Resistance from the Complete Genome Analysis of an Early Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain and a Biofilm-Producing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Strain (2005, background): “Homologs of Bap and Bhp were identified in other bacteria, including the enterococcal surface protein or Esp in Enterococcus faecalis, where it plays a similar essential role in biofilm formation (46).”
• The Enterococcus: a Model of Adaptability to Its Environment (2019, background): “faecium, playing a role in urethral colonization (121) and endocarditis (122) and promoting biofilm formation (121, 123, 124).”
• CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (2009, background): “En la adhesión a superficies radiculares también intervienen proteínas de membrana externa que, a su vez, son importantes para la formación de BPs en superficies abióticas en Enterococcus faecalis (Toledo-Arana et al., 2001), P.”
• What drives bacteria to produce a biofilm? (2004, neutral): “faecalis [56]”
• Antimicrobial activity, safety aspects, and some technological properties of bacteriocinogenic Enterococcus faecium from artisanal Tunisian fermented meat (2010, background): “The absence of this trait in bacteriocin-producing enterococci in this study is a positive attribute, because the esp gene codes for a protein (Esp) supposed to promote the primary surface attachment contributing to colonization of urinary tract epithelial cells and biofilm formation and to be invol”
• Signals, Regulatory Networks, and Materials That Build and Break Bacterial Biofilms (2009, background): “A Baplike protein, Esp, is required for biofilm formation by Enterococcus faecalis, although some strains can form biofilms in the absence of this protein (179, 323).”