The hemagglutinin gene A (hagA) of Porphyromonas gingivalis 381 contains four large, contiguous, direct repeats

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4000-4007

  Han, Naiming ^a   Whitlock, Joan ^a   Progulske Fox, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029819454     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.10.4000-4007.1996     Document Type: Article

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