Production of a single-chain variable fraction capable of inhibiting the Streptococcus mutans glucosyltransferase in Bacillus brevis: Construction of a chimeric shuttle plasmid secreting its gene product

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1626, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 57-64

  Shiroza, Teruaki ^a   Shinozaki Kuwahara, Noriko ^a   Hayakawa, Mitsuo ^a   Shibata, Yasuko ^a   Hashizume, Tomomi ^a   Fukushima, Kazuo ^a   Udaka, Shigezo ^b   Abiko, Yoshimitsu ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus brevis; Dental caries; Glucosyltransferase; Inhibition of WIS synthesis; ScFv

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUCAN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; PORPHYROMONAS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0344838579     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(03)00038-1     Document Type: Article

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