... of the LAO family andreveals LAO involvement in the innate immunity of fish skin.AbbreviationsAIP, apoptosis-inducing protein; ConA, concanavalin A; LAO,L-amino acid oxidase; MIC, minimum inhibitory ... binding to the bacterial cell surface. Furtherinvestigation is in progress to elucidate the bacteriumselectivity and the mode of action of SSAP. Finally,SSAP is likely to be important in the ... coli and Salmonella typhimurium, suggest-ing the importance of the antibacterial protein as aprimary innate immune strategy in the rockfish skin. In a previous study [22], we obtained the antibacterialprotein...