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Sialic Acid Transporter NanT Participates in Tannerella forsythia Biofilm Formation and Survival on Epithelial Cells

Tannerella forsythia is a periodontal pathogen implicated in periodontitis. This gram-negative pathogen depends on exogenous peptidoglycan amino sugar N-acetylmuramic acid (NAM) for growth. In the biofilm state the bacterium can utilize sialic acid (Neu5Ac) instead of NAM to sustain its growth. Thus...

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Publicado en:Microb Pathog
Autores principales: Honma, Kiyonobu, Ruscitto, Angela, Frey, Andrew. M., Stafford, Graham P., Sharma, Ashu
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769987/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26318875
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2015.08.012
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