The relationships between leukotoxin production, growth rate and the bicarbonate concentration in a toxin-production-variable strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 963-970

  Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyagi, Atsushi ^a   Kato, Keijiro ^a   Fukui, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Bicarbonate effect; Chemostat culture; Leukotoxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BICARBONATE; FRUCTOSE; LEUKOTOXIN; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOREACTOR; CELL SURFACE; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0029936526     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-142-4-963     Document Type: Article

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