Virulence-related mechanisms of A. actinomycetemcomitans vesicles as suggested by proteins identified in the strain 173 OMV proteome.

a) Full protein descriptions as appearing in the genome database used, and their accession numbers are listed in S1, S2, and S3 Tables.The 151 proteins of the strain 173 OMV proteome identified by LC-MS/MS were manually searched for their earlier reported involvement in A. actinomycetemcomitans offense and defense, and in other bacteria. The listed proteins are discussed in the main text.