Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and disruption of streptococcus mutans glutathione reductase gene (gor)

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1056-1062

  Yamamoto, Yuji ^a   Kamio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Higuchi, Masako ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diamide; Glutathione reductase; Gor gene; Oxidative stress; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; OXIDIZING AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDANTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033141893     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.1056     Document Type: Article

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