LuxS-based signaling affects Streptococcus mutans biofilm formation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2372-2380

  Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Ansai, Toshihiro ^a   Takehara, Tadamichi ^a   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^b  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOSENSORS; ENZYMES; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TOOTH ENAMEL;

BIOFILM FORMATION; ETIOLOGICAL AGENTS; LUXS-BASED SIGNALING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BIOFILMS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GTFB; PROTEIN GTFC; PROTEIN GTFD; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DENTAL HEALTH;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HOMOSERINE; HUMANS; LACTONES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOUTH; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

EID: 18444404939     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2372-2380.2005     Document Type: Article

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