title: Porphyromonas gingivalis: a proteinase/gene accounting audit.
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.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Potempa
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pavloff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Travis
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016966:Porphyromonas gingivalis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases