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Impact of the global burden of periodontal diseases on health, nutrition and wellbeing of mankind: A call for global action

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A comprehensive guide to pilus biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria

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Metabolic crosstalk regulates Porphyromonas gingivalis colonization and virulence during oral polymicrobial infection

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A Distinct Type of Pilus from the Human Microbiome

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Role of Mfa5 in Expression of Mfa1 Fimbriae in Porphyromonas gingivalis

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Dual lifestyle of Porphyromonas gingivalis in biofilm and gingival cells

(2016) Akito Sakanaka et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

Dancing with the Stars: How Choreographed Bacterial Interactions Dictate Nososymbiocity and Give Rise to Keystone Pathogens, Accessory Pathogens, and Pathobionts

(2016) George Hajishengallis et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structure of the fimbrial protein Mfa4 from Porphyromonas gingivalis in its precursor form: implications for a donor-strand complementation mechanism

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High-throughput sequencing reveals key genes and immune homeostatic pathways activated in myeloid dendritic cells byPorphyromonas gingivalis381 and its fimbrial mutants

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Polymicrobial synergy and dysbiosis in inflammatory disease

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Porphyromonas gingivalis Evasion of Autophagy and Intracellular Killing by Human Myeloid Dendritic Cells Involves DC-SIGN-TLR2 Crosstalk

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Mfa4, an Accessory Protein of Mfa1 Fimbriae, Modulates Fimbrial Biogenesis, Cell Auto-Aggregation, and Biofilm Formation in Porphyromonas gingivalis

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Global Burden of Severe Periodontitis in 1990-2010

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Characterization of a bacterial tyrosine kinase inPorphyromonas gingivalisinvolved in polymicrobial synergy

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Inhibition of gingipains by their profragments as the mechanism protecting Porphyromonas gingivalis against premature activation of secreted proteases

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Breaking bad: Manipulation of the host response byPorphyromonas gingivalis

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Localization and function of the accessory protein Mfa3 inPorphyromonas gingivalisMfa1 fimbriae

(2013) Y. Hasegawa et al.   Molecular Oral Microbiology

Porphyromonas gingivalisfimbriae

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Large Is Fast, Small Is Tight: Determinants of Speed and Affinity in Subunit Capture by a Periplasmic Chaperone

(2012) Xiao Di Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Microbial interactions in building of communities

(2012) C.J. Wright et al.   Molecular Oral Microbiology

The keystone-pathogen hypothesis

(2012) George Hajishengallis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Chaperone-usher pathways: diversity and pilus assembly mechanism

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Allosteric Mechanism Controls Traffic in the Chaperone/Usher Pathway

(2012) Xiao Di Yu et al.   STRUCTURE

Recombinant Porphyromonas gingivalis FimA preproprotein expressed in Escherichia coli is lipidated and the mature or processed recombinant FimA protein forms a short filament in vitro

(2010) Mikio Shoji et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Structural Dissection andIn VivoEffectiveness of a Peptide Inhibitor ofPorphyromonas gingivalisAdherence toStreptococcus gordonii

(2010) Carlo Amorin Daep et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Dichotomy of gingipains action as virulence factors: from cleaving substrates with the precision of a surgeon’s knife to a meat chopper-like brutal degradation of proteins

(2010) Yonghua Guo et al.   PERIODONTOLOGY 2000

Host Adhesive Activities and Virulence of Novel Fimbrial Proteins of Porphyromonas gingivalis

(2009) D. L. Pierce et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Targeting of DC-SIGN on Human Dendritic Cells by Minor Fimbriated Porphyromonas gingivalis Strains Elicits a Distinct Effector T Cell Response

(2009) A. E. Zeituni et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Anchoring and length regulation of Porphyromonas gingivalis Mfa1 fimbriae by the downstream gene product Mfa2

(2009) Y. Hasegawa et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Structural biology of the chaperone–usher pathway of pilus biogenesis

(2009) Gabriel Waksman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Pili in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria — structure, assembly and their role in disease

(2008) T. Proft et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Surface components ofPorphyromonas gingivalis

(2008) F. Yoshimura et al.   JOURNAL OF PERIODONTAL RESEARCH

APorphyromonas gingivalistyrosine phosphatase is a multifunctional regulator of virulence attributes

(2008) Kazuhiko Maeda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY