Identification and characterization of a nonimmunoglobulin factor in human saliva that inhibits Streptococcus mutans glucosyltransferase

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1136-1142

  Jespersgaard, Christina ^a   Hajishengallis, George ^a   Russell, Michael W ^a   Michalek, Suzanne M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUTH CAVITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; SALIVA; SALIVARY PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0036175144     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.3.1136-1142.2002     Document Type: Article

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