The regulatory effect of fermentable sugar levels on the production of leukotoxin by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-166

  Mizoguchi, Katsunori ^a   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyagi, Atsushi ^a   Kurihara, Hidemi ^a,b   Takashiba, Shogo ^a   Kato, Keijiro ^a   Murayama, Yoji ^a   Fukui, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; chemostat culture; leukotoxin; sugar repression

Indexed keywords

LEUKOTOXIN; SUGAR;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; EXOTOXINS; FERMENTATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 0031026850     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00473-9     Document Type: Article

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