Characterization of two operons that encode components of fructose-specific enzyme II of the sugar:phosphotransferase system of Streptococcus mutans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 337-342

  Wen, Zezhang T ^a   Browngardt, Chris ^a   Burne, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Fructose phosphotransferase system; Streptococci; Xylitol toxicity

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; FRUCTOSE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE; SUCROSE; SUGAR; XYLITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TOXICITY;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FRUCTOSE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; XYLITOL;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0035910180     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00499-2     Document Type: Article

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