Proteomic study of Staphylococcus haemolyticus after the host-microbe co-colonisation

In this study, the adhesive and biofilm forming properties of ten clinical and ten commensal S. haemolyticus isolates were examined using standard adhesion and biofilm assays, in addition we selected one clinical S. haemolyticus isolate for bacterial surface shaving. The surface shaving approach was used to identify upregulated S. haemolyticus proteins subsequent to human keratinocyte colonization. Relative quantification of up and downregulated proteins was performed by labelling proteins with tandem mass tags (TMT), prior to Mass Spectrometry analysis.