Fate of free DNA and transformation of the oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii DL1 by plasmid DNA in human saliva

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 6-10

  Mercer, Derry K ^a   Scott, Karen P ^a   Bruce Johnson, Wendy A ^a   Glover, L Anne ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; PLASMID DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH FLORA; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUUS CABALLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0032909173     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.6-10.1999     Document Type: Article

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