Structural domains of Porphyromonas gingivalis recombinant fimbrillin that mediate binding to salivary proline-rich protein and statherin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1631-1637

  Amano, Atsuo ^a,b   Sharma, Ashu ^a   Lee, Jing Yong ^a,c   Sojar, Hakimuddin T ^a   Raj, Periathamby A ^a   Genco, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLINE; STATHERIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FIMBRIA; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029876020     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.5.1631-1637.1996     Document Type: Article

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