Genetic exchange of fimbrial alleles exemplifies the adaptive virulence strategy of Porphyromonas gingivalis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kerr, Jennifer E ^a   Abramian, Jared R ^a   Dao, Doan Hieu V ^a   Rigney, Todd W ^a   Fritz, Jamie ^a   Pham, Tan ^a   Gay, Isabel ^a   Parthasarathy, Kavitha ^a   Wang, Bing Yan ^a   Zhang, Wenjian ^a   Tribble, Gena D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA TRANSFER; FIBROBLAST; FIMA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERIZATION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION; ALLELE; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; VIRULENCE;

FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ALLELES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PERIODONTITIS; PHENOTYPE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84898001671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091696     Document Type: Article

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