Involvement of sortase anchoring of cell wall proteins in biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3773-3777

  Lévesque, Céline M ^a   Voronejskaia, Elena ^a   Huang, Yi Chen Cathy ^a   Mair, Richard W ^a   Ellen, Richard P ^a   Cvitkovitch, Dennis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SORTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SRTA GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; LECTINS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 19744379315     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3773-3777.2005     Document Type: Article

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