Comparative properties of envelope-associated arginine-gingipains and lysine-gingipain of Porphyromonas gingivalis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-179

  Fujimura, Setsuo ^a   Hirai, Kaname ^a   Shibata, Yukinaga ^a   Nakayama, Koji ^b   Nakamura, Takeshi ^a  

^a MATSUMOTO DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Envelope; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Proteinase

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GINGIPAIN R; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOLUBILIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ARGININE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEMAGGLUTININS; HEMOGLOBINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LYSINE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 0032526398     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00169-4     Document Type: Article

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