Porphyromonas gingivalis, a Gram-negative oral anaerobe, interacts with epithelium lining the gingival sulcus. Continuing our studies on the role of gingipain cysteine proteinases in P. gingivalis adherence to epithelial cells, we showed that antibody raised to the recombinant adhesin domain of arg-gingipain A blocked bacterial attachment, providing new additional evidence that P. gingivalis adherence to epithelial cells is mediated by gingipain adhesin peptides. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Tokyo Dent Coll, Oral Hlth Sci Ctr, Chiba 2618502, JapanTokyo Dent Coll, Dept Microbiol, Mihama Ku, Chiba 2618502, Japan
Ito, Rieko
Ishihara, Kazuyuki
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Ishihara, Kazuyuki
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Shoji, Mikio
Nakayama, Koji
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Nagasaki Univ, Div Microbiol & Oral Infect, Dept Mol Microbiol & Immunol, Grad Sch Biomed Sci, Nagasaki 852, JapanTokyo Dent Coll, Dept Microbiol, Mihama Ku, Chiba 2618502, Japan
Nakayama, Koji
Okuda, Katsuji
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