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Proteomics of Porphyromonas gingivalis within a model oral microbial community.
BMC microbiology - 19 May 2009
Kuboniwa Masae, Hendrickson Erik L, Xia Qiangwei, Wang Tiansong, Xie Hua, Hackett Murray, Lamont Richard J
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BACKGROUND: Porphyromonas gingivalis is a periodontal pathogen that resides in a complex multispecies microbial biofilm community known as dental plaque. Confocal laser scanning microscopy showed that P. gingivalis can assemble into communities in vitro with Streptococcus gordonii and Fusobacterium nucleatum, common constituents of dental plaque. Whole cell quantitative proteomics, along with mutant construction...
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