title: Bordetella bronchiseptica expresses the fimbrial structural subunit gene fimA.
abstract: The differential host species specificities of Bordetella pertussis, B. parapertussis, and B. bronchiseptica might be explained by polymorphisms in adherence factor genes. We have found that B. parapertussis and B. bronchiseptica, unlike B. pertussis, contain a full-length gene for the fimbrial subunit FimA. B. bronchiseptica expresses fimA in a BvgAS-dependent fashion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicne, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Boschwitz
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: van der Heide
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Mooi
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Relman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016950:Bordetella bronchiseptica / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D015870:Gene Expression; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C063055:fimbrillin; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins