Prevotella species as oral residents and infectious agents with potential impact on systemic conditions

E Könönen, D Fteita, UK Gursoy… - Journal of Oral …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Oral Prevotella are known as anaerobic commensals on oral mucosae and in dental
plaques from early life onwards, including pigmented P. melaninogenica, P. nigrescens, and …

How is the development of dental biofilms influenced by the host?

PD Marsh, DA Devine - Journal of clinical periodontology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Marsh PD, Devine DA. How is the development of dental biofilms influenced by the host? J
Clin Periodontol 2011; 38 (Suppl. 11): 28–35. doi: 10.1111/j. 1600‐051X. 2010.01673. x …

Prevotella: An insight into its characteristics and associated virulence factors

G Sharma, N Garg, S Hasan, S Shirodkar - Microbial Pathogenesis, 2022 - Elsevier
Prevotella species, a gram-negative obligate anaerobe, is commonly associated with human
infections such as dental caries and periodontitis, as well as other conditions such as …

Heme acquisition mechanisms of Porphyromonas gingivalis – strategies used in a polymicrobial community in a heme‐limited host environment

JW Smalley, T Olczak - Molecular Oral Microbiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Porphyromonas gingivalis, a main etiologic agent and key pathogen responsible for
initiation and progression of chronic periodontitis requires heme as a source of iron and …

Iron pathways and iron chelation approaches in viral, microbial, and fungal infections

R Chhabra, A Saha, A Chamani, N Schneider, R Shah… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Iron is an essential element required to support the health of organisms. This element is
critical for regulating the activities of cellular enzymes including those involved in cellular …

Comparative pan genome analysis of oral Prevotella species implicated in periodontitis

M Ibrahim, A Subramanian, S Anishetty - Functional & integrative …, 2017 - Springer
Prevotella is part of the oral bacterial community implicated in periodontitis. Pan genome
analyses of eight oral Prevotella species, P. dentalis, P. enoeca, P. fusca, P …

HmuY Haemophore and Gingipain Proteases Constitute a Unique Syntrophic System of Haem Acquisition by Porphyromonas gingivalis

JW Smalley, DP Byrne, AJ Birss, H Wojtowicz… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Haem (iron protoporphyrin IX) is both an essential growth factor and virulence regulator for
the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, which acquires it mainly from …

New Insights into Prevotella Diversity and Medical Microbiology

C Alauzet, H Marchandin, A Lozniewski - Future microbiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In light of recent studies based on cultivation-independent methods, it appears that the
diversity of Prevotella in human microbiota is greater than was previously assumed from …

Evidence of mutualism between two periodontal pathogens: co‐operative haem acquisition by the HmuY haemophore of Porphyromonas gingivalis and the cysteine protease …

DP Byrne, J Potempa, T Olczak… - Molecular oral …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Haem (iron protoporphyrin IX) is both an essential growth factor and a virulence regulator of
the periodontal pathogens P orphyromonas gingivalis and P revotella intermedia, which …

Potential contributions of anaerobes in cystic fibrosis airways

CS Thornton, MG Surette - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common, lethal genetic disease among the Caucasian
population. The leading cause of mortality is recurrent acute exacerbations resulting in …