Article
Involvement of arginine-specific cysteine proteinase (Arg-gingipain) in fimbriation of Porphyromonas gingivalis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 1996
Nakayama K, Yoshimura F, Kadowaki T, Yamamoto K
Abstract excerpt
Arginine-specific cysteine proteinase (Arg-gingipain [RGP], a major proteinase secreted from the oral anaerobic bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis, is encoded by two separate genes (rgpA and rgpB) on the P. gingivalis chromosome and widely implicated as an important virulence factor in the pathog...
Topics
- Adhesins, Bacterial
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cysteine Endopeptidases
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Gingipain Cysteine Endopeptidases
- Hemagglutinins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Porphyromonas gingivalis
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Substrate Specificity