Phenol-soluble modulin α and β display divergent roles in mice with staphylococcal septic arthritis

Phenol-soluble modulin α and β display divergent roles in staphylococcal infection and its associated septic arthritis - whereas PSMα is a virulence factor for neutrophils that worsens infection, PSMβ protects from the development of septic arthritis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhicheng Hu, Pradeep Kumar Kopparapu, Patrick Ebner, Majd Mohammad, Simon Lind, Anders Jarneborn, Claes Dahlgren, Michelle Schultz, Meghshree Deshmukh, Rille Pullerits, Mulugeta Nega, Minh-Thu Nguyen, Ying Fei, Huamei Forsman, Friedrich Götz, Tao Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03839-2