Dinath B. Ratnayake

Genetic Analyses of Proteolysis, Hemoglobin Binding, and Hemagglutination of Porphyromonas gingivalis

Yixin Shi, Dinath B. Ratnayake, Kuniaki Okamoto et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1999 · 327 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +13

Involvement of a Lysine-specific Cysteine Proteinase in Hemoglobin Adsorption and Heme Accumulation by Porphyromonas gingivalis

Kuniaki Okamoto, Koji Nakayama, Tomoko Kadowaki et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1998 · 155 citations · Full text

Dentistry, Microbiology, Oral Biology +17

Haemoglobin receptor protein is intragenically encoded by the cysteine proteinase‐encoding genes and the haemagglutinin‐encoding gene of <i>Porphyromonas gingivalis</i>

Koji Nakayama, Dinath B. Ratnayake, Takayuki Tsukuba et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 1998 · 116 citations

Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Oral Biology +16

Purification, Gene Cloning, Gene Expression, and Mutants of Dps from the Obligate Anaerobe <i>Porphyromonas gingivalis</i>

Junichi Ueshima, Mikio Shoji, Dinath B. Ratnayake et al. · Infection and Immunity · 2003 · 110 citations · Full text

Dentistry, Molecular Biology, Oral Biology +15

Construction and characterization of a nonpigmented mutant of Porphyromonas gingivalis: cell surface polysaccharide as an anchorage for gingipains The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequences reported in this paper is D64132.

Mikio Shoji, Dinath B. Ratnayake, Yixin Shi et al. · Microbiology · 2002 · 95 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16