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Characterization of the α- and β-mannosidases of Porphyromonas gingivalis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2013
Rangarajan Minnie, Aduse-Opoku Joseph, Hashim Ahmed, Paramonov Nikolay, Curtis Michael A
Abstract excerpt
Mannose is an important sugar in the biology of the Gram-negative bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis. It is a major component of the oligosaccharides attached to the Arg-gingipain cysteine proteases, the repeating units of an acidic lipopolysaccharide (A-LPS), and the core regions of both types of LPS produced by the organism (O-LPS and A-LPS) and a reported extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) isolated from spent...
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