Dual function of a tip fimbrillin of Actinomyces in fimbrial assembly and receptor binding

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3197-3206

  Wu, Chenggang ^a   Mishra, Arunima ^a   Yang, Jinghua ^b   Cisar, John O ^b   Das, Asis ^c   Ton That, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN FIMP; PROTEIN FIMQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOMYCES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIMBRIA; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ACTINOMYCES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ACTINOMYCES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959338189     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00173-11     Document Type: Article

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