Inactivation of the gbpA gene of Streptococcus mutans alters structural and functional aspects of plaque biofilm which are compensated by recombination of the gtfB and gtfC genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3909-3914

  Hazlett, Karsten R O ^a,b   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^a   Banas, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; DENTAL CARIES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0032791045     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.8.3909-3914.1999     Document Type: Article

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