Filifactor alocis has virulence attributes that can enhance its persistence under oxidative stress conditions and mediate invasion of epithelial cells by Porphyromonas gingivalis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3872-3886

  Aruni, A Wilson ^a   Roy, Francis ^a   Fletcher, H M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; NONGINGIPAIN PROTEASE; PROTEASOME; SIALIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; COCULTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FILIFACTOR ALOCIS; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEOME; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 80855141275     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05631-11     Document Type: Article

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