Identification of type 4 pili in Kingella denitrificans.
Kingella denitrificans is an occasionally pathogenic member of the family Neisseriaceae and is a member of the normal respiratory flora. Electron microscopy, colony morphology types, DNA transformation patterns, and immunoblots suggest that K. denitrificans and K. kingae have type 4 pili. This was confirmed by N-terminal amino acid sequencing for K. denitrificans.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009346:Neisseriaceae / Q000235:genetics / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial
D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins