Inactivation of the gbpA gene of Streptococcus mutans increases virulence and promotes in vivo accumulation of recombinations between the glucosyltransferase B and C genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2180-2185

  Hazlett, Karsten R O ^a   Michalek, Suzanne M ^b   Banas, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN BINDING PROTEIN A; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE B; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE C; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SUCROSE; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0031946839     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.5.2180-2185.1998     Document Type: Article

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