Proteinase activity of Prevotella species associated with oral purulent infection

Current Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 375-378

  Yanagisawa, Maki ^a   Kuriyama, Tomoari ^b   Williams, David W ^c   Nakagawa, Kiyomasa ^a   Karasawa, Tadahiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PROTEINASE;

ALVEOLAR BONE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA BUCCAE; PREVOTELLA LOESCHEII; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PREVOTELLA ORALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PUS; SPECIES;

BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTIONS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; PERIODONTITIS; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA BUCCAE; PREVOTELLA DENTICOLA; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PREVOTELLA LOESCHEII; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PREVOTELLA NIGRESCENS; PREVOTELLA ORALIS;

EID: 33645800193     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0261-1     Document Type: Article

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