Figure 2

Overview over the identifcation of 69 surface-located proteins using various treatments of enterococcal cells. The putative cellular localizations of the identified proteins, as provided in Table 3 are indicated. In total 58, 16 and 29 proteins were identified in the trypsin, untreated and beads samples, respectively. Note that this figure combines the data from the one and two hour treatments and includes the data from both the direct LC-MS/MS analysis and the SDS-PAGE-based approach. More details about the numbers of identified proteins in the various experiments are provided in Additional file 2. Proteins containing multiple transmembrane helices are indicated by "Membrane"; proteins indicated by "Cell Wall" include 4 proteins with LPxTG anchors and two proteins containing domains known to display cell wall binding affinity.