Construction and characterization of a nonpigmented mutant of Porphyromonas gingivalis: Cell surface polysaccharide as an anchorage for gingipanis

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1183-1191

  Shoji, Mikio ^a   Ratnayake, Dinath B ^a   Shi, Yixin ^a   Kadowaki, Tomoko ^a   Yamamoto, Kenji ^a   Yoshimura, Fuminobu ^a   Akamine, Akifumi ^a   Curtis, Michael A ^a   Nakayama, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell surface polysaccharide; Colonial pigmentation; Cysteine proteinases; Fimbrillin maturation; Haemogglutination

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; HEMOGLOBIN; MEMBRANE ENZYME; PHENOL; PROTEIN PORR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LYSATE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PLEIOTROPY; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SUPERNATANT; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PORPHYROMONAS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036232069     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-4-1183     Document Type: Article

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