Construction of region-specific partial duplication mutants (merodiploid mutants) to identify the regulatory gene for the glucan-binding protein C gene in vivo in Streptococcus mutans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-191

  Sato, Yutaka ^a   Yamamoto, Yasuhito ^a   Kizaki, Harutoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diploidy; gbpC gene expression; Gene rearrangement; Streptococcus mutans; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REGULATOR GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUCANS; LECTINS; MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0034607978     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00140-3     Document Type: Article

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