title: Adherence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum involves variable surface membrane proteins.
abstract: Adherence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum to erythrocytes was examined by colony immunoblotting, detergent phase fractionation, trypsin treatment, comparison of protein profiles, and comparison of erythrocyte-bound mycoplasma protein fractions of hemadsorption-positive and -negative mutants. The binding of M. gallisepticum to chicken or human erythrocytes was found to be mediated via surface-exposed membrane proteins undergoing high-frequency phase variation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Athamna
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosengarten
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levisohn
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kahane
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yogev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D002645:Chickens; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins