Genes for tight adherence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans: From plaque to plague to pond scum

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 429-437

  Kachlany, Scott C ^a   Planet, Paul J ^a   DeSalle, Rob ^b   Fine, Daniel H ^c   Figurski, David H ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; HYDROXYAPATITE; PLASTIC; RECOMBINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; FIBER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOUTH CAVITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035449036     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02161-8     Document Type: Review

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