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Purification and characterization of a novel secondary fimbrial protein from Porphyromonas gingivalis strain 381.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Dec 2000
Arai M, Hamada N, Umemoto T
Abstract excerpt
We previously reported the existence of two different kinds of fimbriae expressed by Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277. In this study, we isolated and characterized a secondary fimbrial protein from strain FPG41, a fimA-inactivated mutant of P. gingivalis 381. FPG41 was constructed by a homologous recombination technique using a mobilizable suicide vector, and failed to express the long fimbriae (41-kDa...
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