Roles of Streptococcus mutans dextranase anchored to the cell wall by sortase

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-105

  Igarashi, Takeshi ^a   Asaga, E ^a   Goto, N ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilm, dextranase; LPXTG motif; Sortase; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTISERUM; DEXTRANASE; GLUCAN; SORTASE; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENZYME BINDING; FERMENTATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUPERNATANT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DEXTRANASE; DEXTRANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FERMENTATION; GLUCANS; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE;

EID: 1442314055     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0902-0055.2003.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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