Two Paralogous Families of a Two-Gene Subtilisin Operon Are Widely Distributed in Oral Treponemes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6860-6869

  Correia, Frederick F ^a   Plummer, Alvin R ^a   Ellen, Richard P ^b   Wyss, Chris ^c   Boches, Susan K ^a   Galvin, Jamie L ^a   Paster, Bruce J ^a,d   Dewhirst, Floyd E ^a,d  

^a FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILIDE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; N SUCCINYLALANYLALANYLPROLYLPHENYLALANINE 4 NITROANILIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA LECITHINOLYTICUM; TREPONEMA SOCRANSKII; TREPONEMA VINCENTII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DOGS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUBTILISINS; TREPONEMA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA LECITHINOLYTICUM; TREPONEMA SOCRANSKII; TREPONEMA SOCRANSKII SUBSP. '04'; TREPONEMA VINCENTII;

EID: 0344393469     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.23.6860-6869.2003     Document Type: Article

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