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SUBMITTER: Onozawa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4324044 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onozawa Satosu S Kikuchi Yuichiro Y Shibayama Kazuko K Kokubu Eitoyo E Nakayama Masaaki M Inoue Tetsuyoshi T Nakano Keisuke K Shibata Yukinaga Y Ohara Naoya N Nakayama Koji K Ishihara Kazuyuki K Kawakami Toshiyuki T Hasegawa Hiromasa H
BMC oral health 20150117
<h4>Background</h4>Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated as a major pathogen in the development and progression of chronic periodontitis. P. gingivalis biofilm formation in the subgingival crevice plays an important role in the ability of the bacteria to tolerate stress signals outside the cytoplasmic membrane. Some bacteria use a distinct subfamily of sigma factors to regulate their extracytoplasmic functions (the ECF subfamily). The objective of this study was to determine if P. gingiva ...[more]