Characterization of FimA in Porphyromonas gingivalis genotype IV |
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Authors: | Choi Young-Suk Moon Ji-Hoi Park Jae-Hong Lee Jin-Yong |
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Institution: | Department of Maxillofacial Biomedical Engineering, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. |
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Abstract: | It has been reported that a large majority of periodontitis patients carry organisms with either type II or IV-fimA, while type I is the most prevalent fimA genotype among Porphyromonas gingivalis-positive healthy adults. Here we report characterization of recombinant fimbrial protein (rFimA) produced in Escherichia coli from genotype IV-fimA. In SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis after partial dissociation, type IV-rFimA showed a ladder-like pattern representing oligomeric/polymeric forms of native fimbrial structure. Unlike anti-type I-native fimbriae which can only recognize conformational epitopes of the respective proteins, both anti-type IV-native fimbriae and anti-type IV-rFimA antibodies recognized conformational as well as linear epitopes in type IV-fimbriae. These results suggest that the type IV-rFimA proteins retain the native fimbrial antigenicity and the antigenicity of type IV-fimbriae is different from that of type I-fimbriae. |
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