Porphyromonas gingivalis mutant defective in a putative extracytoplasmic function sigma factor shows a mutator phenotype

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 377-383

  Kikuchi, Y ^a   Ohara, N ^b   Ueda, O ^a   Hirai, K ^a   Shibata, Y ^a   Nakayama, K ^c   Fujimura, S ^a,d  

^a MATSUMOTO DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ECF sigma factor; Mutator; Porphyromonas gingivalis

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ARGININE; LYSINE; METHIONINE DERIVATIVE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; METHIONINE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 68949205100     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: 1399302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2009.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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