Porphyromonas gingivalis: a proteinase/gene accounting audit
J Potempa1, N Pavloff, J Travis
1Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Trends in Microbiology
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
Analysis of the available data on the Porphyromonas gingivalis proteinase system suggests that at most three different genes encode arginine-X- and lysine-X-specific cysteine proteinases. These are synthesized as polyproteins containing a prepropeptide, a catalytic domain and a hemagglutinin domain. Post-translational processing of each precursor is responsible for the variety of proteinase forms that are seen.


