Insertional inactivation of genes responsible for the D-alanylation of lipoteichoic acid in Streptococcus gordonii DL1 (Challis) affects intrageneric coaggregations

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2464-2474

  Clemans, Daniel L ^a,d   Kolenbrander, Paul E ^a,c   Debabov, Dmitri V ^b   Zhang, Qunying ^b   Lunsford, R Dwayne ^a,e   Sakone, Holly ^b   Whittaker, Catherine J ^a,f   Heaton, Michael P ^b,g   Neuhaus, Francis C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^g U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOTEICHOIC ACID;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0032932438     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2464-2474.1999     Document Type: Article

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