A shift from oral to blood pH is a stimulus for adaptive gene expression of Streptococcus gordonii CH1 and induces protection against oxidative stress and enhanced bacterial growth by expression of msrA

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1061-1068

  Vriesema, Aldwin J M ^a,b   Dankert, Jacob ^a   Zaat, Sebastian A J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NUMICO RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; METHIONINE SULFOXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLOOD PH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RABBIT; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033963968     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.3.1061-1068.2000     Document Type: Article

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