Peptide pheromone induced cell death of Streptococcus mutans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 321-326

  Qi, Fengxia ^a   Kreth, J ^a   Lévesque, Celine M ^b   Kay, Olga ^c   Mair, Richard W ^b   Shi, Wenyuan ^a   Cvitkovitch, Dennis G ^b   Goodman, Steven D ^c  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Competence stimulating peptide; Mutans; Programmed cell death; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELL DEATH; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 25644434423     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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