Identification and analysis of a collagenolytic activity in Streptococcus mutans

Current Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-54

  Jackson, Rosalind J ^a   Lim, Daniel V ^a   Dao, My Lien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; DENTAL CARIES; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AMNION; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHELATING AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASES; CROSS REACTIONS; EDETIC ACID; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GELATIN; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHENANTHROLINES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE;

EID: 0031033354     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900143     Document Type: Article

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