The phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system of oral streptococci and its role in the control of sugar metabolism

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 187-207

  Vadeboncoeur, Christian ^a   Pelletier, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

catabolite repression; HPr; inducer exclusion; oral streptococcus; phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system; sugar metabolism

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOUTH FLORA; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

EID: 0031031808     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(96)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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