Identification, molecular cloning, and sequence analysis of a deoxyribose aldolase in Streptococcus mutans GS-5

Current Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 230-236

  Han, Thomas K ^a   Zhu, Zhiwen ^a   My, Lien Dao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DEOXYADENOSINE; DEOXYRIBOSE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; THYMIDINE; BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYRIBOSE PHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; DEOXYRIBOSE-PHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; LYASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBON SOURCE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOELECTRIC POINT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DEOXYADENOSINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; THYMIDINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 2942538588     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-003-4159-5     Document Type: Article

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