网页The clumping factor (ClfA) is a cell surface-associated protein of Staphylococcus aureus that promotes binding of fibrinogen or fibrin to the bacterial cell.
网页The surface-located fibrinogen-binding protein (clumping factor; ClfA) of Staphylococcus aureus has an unusual dipeptide repeat linking the ligand binding domain to the wall-anchored region. Southern blotting experiments revealed several other loci in the S. aureus Newman genome that hybridized to a probe comprising DNA encoding the dipeptide ...