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Identification of a two-component signal transduction system involved in fimbriation of Porphyromonas gingivalis.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Hayashi J, Nishikawa K, Hirano R, Noguchi T, Yoshimura F
Abstract excerpt
Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathogen, is an oral anaerobic gram-negative bacterium with numerous fimbriae on the cell surface. Fimbriae have been considered to be an important virulence factor in this organism. We analyzed the genomic DNA of transposon-induced, fimbria-deficient mutants derived from ATCC 33277 and found that seven independent mutants had transposon insertions within the same restriction...
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