Volume 8, Number 9, September 2002

Research

Characterization of Flagella Produced by Clinical Strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Doroti de Oliveira-Garcia,*† Monique Dall'Agnol,‡ Mónica Rosales,‡ Ana C.G.S. Azzuz,§ Marina B. Martinez,†§ and Jorge A. Girón‡
*Laboratório Clínico do Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil; †Departamento de Microbiologia do Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ‡Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México; and §Departamento de Análises Clínicas da Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Figure 3. N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis. The first 14 residues of SM_FliC showed considerable identity to other flagellins. The highest degree of identity was found with the Serratia marcescens flagellin (78.6%). Stenotrophomonas maltophilia flagellin also showed identity to flagellins of Shigella sonnei, Escherichia coli, and Proteus mirabilis (71.4%), and the lowest identity was found with Pseudomonas aeruginosaflagellin (57.2%). The numbers on top indicate the amino acid position.

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