Streptococcus mutans fructosyltransferase interactions with glucans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-43

  Rozen, Ramona ^a   Steinberg, Doron ^a   Bachrach, Gilad ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fructosyltransferase; Glucan binding; Protein expression; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCAN; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BIOFILMS; CULTURE MEDIA; FRUCTANS; FRUCTOSE; GENE DELETION; GLUCANS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 1542321177     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(04)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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