Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae

Journal of Oral Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2013, 2013, Pages

  Enersen, Morten ^a   Nakano, Kazuhiko ^b   Amano, Atsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fima; Genotype; Long fimbriae; Mfa1; P. gingivalis; Short fimbriae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD18 ANTIGEN; CD36 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR 3; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DECAY ACCELERATING FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; GINGIPAIN K; GINGIPAIN R; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROTEIN FIMA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL SURFACE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMA GENE; FIMBRIA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOLYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES INVASION;

EID: 84879309671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20002297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/jom.v5i0.20265     Document Type: Article

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