Identification of essential genes of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Klein, Brian A ^a,b   Tenorio, Elizabeth L ^b   Lazinski, David W ^a   Camilli, Andrew ^a   Duncan, Margaret J ^c   Hu, Linden T ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential genes; Periodontal disease; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Tn seq; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 84868260243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-578     Document Type: Article

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