Identification of the Streptococcus mutans frp gene as a potential regulator of fructosyltransferase expression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-54

  Shibata, Yukie ^a,b   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA binding protein; Fructosyltransferase; Regulation; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0029978509     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00157-7     Document Type: Article

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