Cloning and sequence analysis of the pfl gene encoding pyruvate formate-lyase from Streptococcus mutans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 385-391

  Yamamoto, Yasuhito ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^a   Takahashi Abbe, Shoko ^b   Abbe, Kazuhiko ^b   Yamada, Tadashi ^b   Kizaki, Harutoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; LYASE; PYRUVIC ACID; SORBITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0030061538     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.385-391.1996     Document Type: Article

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