Mutation of luxS affects biofilm formation in Streptococcus mutans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1972-1979

  Merritt, Justin ^a   Qi, Fengxia ^a   Goodman, Steven D ^b   Anderson, Maxwell H ^c   Shi, Wenyuan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Washington Dental Service   (United States)

^d UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOSENSOR; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LUXS; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0037379038     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.4.1972-1979.2003     Document Type: Article

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