A unique nine-gene comY operon in Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 157-166

  Merritt, Justin ^a   Qi, Fengxia ^b   Shi, Wenyuan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN COMY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 13444304499     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27554-0     Document Type: Article

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