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Infection and Immunity, August 2006, p. 4615-4623, Vol. 74, No. 8
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.01885-05
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SdrI, a Serine-Aspartate Repeat Protein Identified in Staphylococcus saprophyticus Strain 7108, Is a Collagen-Binding Protein

Abteilung für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Received 17 November 2005/ Returned for modification 21 March 2006/ Accepted 24 April 2006

A gene encoding a serine-aspartate repeat protein of Staphylococcus saprophyticus, an important cause of urinary tract infections in young women, has been cloned and sequenced. In contrast to other SD repeat proteins, SdrI carries 21 additional N-terminal repeats with a consensus sequence of (P/A)ATKE(K/E)A(A/V)(T/I)(A/T/S)EE and has the longest SD(AD)_(1-5) repetitive region (854 amino acids) described so far. This highly repetitive sequence contains only the amino acids serine, asparagine, and a distinctly greater amount of alanine (37%) than all other known SD repeat proteins (2.3 to 4.4%). In addition, it is a collagen-binding protein of S. saprophyticus and the second example in this organism of a surface protein carrying the LPXTG motif. We constructed an isogenic sdrI knockout mutant that showed decreased binding to immobilized collagen compared with wild-type S. saprophyticus strain 7108. Binding could be reconstituted by complementation. Collagen binding is specifically caused by SdrI, and the recently described UafA protein, the only LPXTG-containing protein in the genome sequence of the type strain, is not involved in this trait. Our experiments suggest that, as in other staphylococci, the presence of different LPXTG-anchored cell wall proteins is common in S. saprophyticus and support the notion that the presence of matrix-binding surface proteins is common in staphylococci.

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