Dentilisin activity affects the organization of the outer sheath of Treponema denticola

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3837-3844

  Ishihara, Kazuyuki ^a   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^b   Miura, Tadashi ^a   Okuda, Katsuji ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 0031855734     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.15.3837-3844.1998     Document Type: Article

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