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Oral treponeme major surface protein: Sequence diversity and distributions within periodontal niches.
Molecular oral microbiology - 1 Dec 2017
You M, Chan Y, Lacap-Bugler D C, Huo Y-B, Gao W, Leung W K, Watt R M
Abstract excerpt
Treponema denticola and other species (phylotypes) of oral spirochetes are widely considered to play important etiological roles in periodontitis and other oral infections. The major surface protein (Msp) of T. denticola is directly implicated in several pathological mechanisms. Here, we have analyzed msp sequence diversity across 68 strains of oral phylogroup 1 and 2 treponemes; including reference strains of...
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