Functional analysis of the Streptococcus gordonii DL1 sialic acid-binding adhesin and its essential role in bacterial binding to platelets

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 3876-3882

  Takahashi, Yukihiro ^a   Yajima, Ayako ^a   Cisar, John O ^b   Konishi, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GLYCOSYLATION; HSA GENE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLATION; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; STREPTOCOCCUS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 3042554572     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.7.3876-3882.2004     Document Type: Article

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