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Fig. 2

From: Bacteria associated with acne use glycosaminoglycans as cell adhesion receptors and promote changes in the expression of the genes involved in their biosynthesis

Fig. 2

Effect of enzymatic degradation of cell GAGs on bacterial adherence to skin cells. Inhibition of bacterial attachment to (a) keratinocytes and (b) fibroblasts treated with heparinases I and III (grey bars) or chondroitinase ABC (white bars). Data were normalized using the adhesion values of bacteria to non-treated cells, which was given the arbitrary value of 1. The spreads represent the standard deviations

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BMC Microbiology

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