Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathogen, is an oral anaerobic Gram‐negative
bacterium with numerous fimbriae on the cell surface. Fimbriae have been considered to be …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is an important component of the complex plaque biofilm that is a
direct precursor of periodontal disease. The major fimbriae are required for attachment to …

Fimbriae are considered to be an important virulence factor ofPorphyromonas gingivalis. In
order to identify genes essential for fimbriation, other thanfimAwhich encodes the major …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-negative oral anaerobe considered to be a major
pathogen in adult periodontitis. One of the noted virulence factors of this bacterium is its …

Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae can mediate adherence to many of the available
substrates in the oral cavity. Expression of P. gingivalis fimbriae is regulated at the …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a late-colonizing bacterium of the subgingival dental plaque
biofilm associated with periodontitis. Two P. gingivalis genes, fimR and fimS, are predicted …

Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae are an important virulence factor involved in attachment
and invasion. Fimbrillin, encoded by the fimA gene, is the major subunit protein of the …

The Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbria is an important virulence factor involved in the
adherence and colonization of the organism in the oral cavity. In this study, we transformed …

Two different transcriptional start sites, as well as promoter regions and translational starts,
have been proposed for the fimA gene encoding a long fimbriae subunit protein of …

We have discovered two distinctly different fimbriae expressed by the same Porphyromonas
gingivalis strain. The construction of a fimA mutant of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 has …