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• TITLE: Adherence of a Clinical Strain of Mycoplasma fermentans to Human Cultured Epithelial Cells

  AUTHORS: Mónica Rosales-Pérez, Silvia Giono-Cerezo, Jorge Girón, Antonio Yáñez, Lilia Cedillo

  KEYWORDS: Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasmas, Adherence, Pathogenesis

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Microbiology, Vol.4 No.11, September 5, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This study compares the kinetics of adherence of both the prototype strain PG-18 and the recently clinically isolated strain P-140 of Mycoplasma fermentans to HEp-2 cells. M. fermentans may induce respiratory and genitourinary tract infections. We investigated the presence of putative adhesins from strain P-140. A surface protein of 47 kDa, labeled SP47, isolated from M. fermentans P-140, seems to be involved in acterial adherence on HEp-2 cells; this study could allow helping understand the interaction between mycoplasmas and their hosts. Anti-SP47 antibodies inhibited the formation of bacterial clusters and adherence to cultured cells, quantified by ELISA. M. fermentans P-140 was more efficient at adhering to cultured HEp-2 cells than PG-18.