Dd. Leite et al., RECEPTORS ON CHICKEN ERYTHROCYTES FOR F42 FIMBRIAE OF ESCHERICHIA-COLI ISOLATED FROM PIGS, Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, 286(3), 1997, pp. 383-388
Haemagglutination of purified F42 fimbriae was found to be inhibited b
y N-acetyl-galactosamine. Purified F42 fimbrial adhesin reacted with d
istinct membrane components from chicken erythrocytes (35, 37 and 40 k
Da) in immunoblot analysis, suggesting that the binding occurred to pr
oteins or glycoproteins.