Tandem genes encode cell-surface polypeptides SspA and SspB which mediate adhesion of the oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii to human and bacterial receptors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 403-413

  Demuth, Donald R ^a   Duan, Yang ^a   Brooks, Wanda ^a   Holmes, Ann R ^b   McNab, Roderick ^b   Jenkinson, Howard F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; TANDEM REPEAT; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACTINOMYCES; ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029880150     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02627.x     Document Type: Article

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