Genetic characterization of a Streptococcus mutans LraI family operon and role in virulence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 4441-4451

  Kitten, Todd ^a   Munro, Cindy L ^a   Michalek, Suzanne M ^b   Macrina, Francis L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DENTAL CARIES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERM-FREE LIFE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033943809     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.8.4441-4451.2000     Document Type: Article

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