Characterization of a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein gene, dmcA, from the oral spirochete Treponema denticola

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4011-4016

  Kataoka, Masatoshi ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a   Arakawa, Shinichi ^a,c   Kuramitsu, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 0030812861     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4011-4016.1997     Document Type: Article

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