title: Are bacterial proteins part of the matrix of kidney stones?
abstract: An extracellular protein, produced from Pseudomonas fluorescens strain D with molecular mass of 41.5 kDa was partially purified. Its first 12 amino acid sequence shows strong similarity to a sequence reported to belong to a protein isolated from a urate-calcium oxalate stone (Binnette & Binnette, Scan Microsc1994; 2: 233-239). A possible involvement of bacterial proteins in stone matrix is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Plovdiv, 24 Tsar Assen Street, Plovdiv, 4 000, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daskalova
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kostadinova
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gauster
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prohaska
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivanov
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002848:Chromatography, DEAE-Cellulose; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins