Roles of the Host Oxidative Immune Response and Bacterial Antioxidant Rubrerythrin during Porphyromonas gingivalis Infection

• Piotr Mydel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

  ¤ Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yusuke Takahashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Microbiology, Kanagawa Dental College, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Hiromichi Yumoto,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Conservative Dentistry, The University of Tokushima, School of Dentistry, Tokushima, Japan

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• Maryta Sztukowska,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Malgorzata Kubica,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Frank C Gibson III,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Donald M Kurtz Jr.,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jim Travis,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• L. Vincent Collins,

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

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• Ky-Anh Nguyen,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Caroline Attardo Genco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: caroline.genco@bmc.org (CAG); potempa@uga.edu (JP)

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jan Potempa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: caroline.genco@bmc.org (CAG); potempa@uga.edu (JP)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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