Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of the Streptococcus mutans membrane-bound, proton-translocating ATPase operon

Gene

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 87-96

  Smith, Alan J ^a   Quivey Jr , Robert G ^a   Faustoferri, Roberta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidurance; Adaptation; Atpase; Caries; Streptococci

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHOSPHORYLASES; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0030443832     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00502-1     Document Type: Article

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