Reduced fimbria-associated activities of Porphyromonas gingivalis induced by recombinant fimbrial expression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-222

  Takahashi, Yusuke ^a   Yoshimoto, Hisashi ^a   Kato, Daisuke ^a   Hamada, Nobushiro ^a   Arai, Munetaka ^a   Umemoto, Toshio ^a  

^a KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Fimbria; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; FIMBRIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GINGIVA; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 0035916417     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00013-1     Document Type: Article

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