Dispensable genes and foreign DNA in Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1777-1788

  Waterhouse, Janet C ^a   Russell, Roy R B ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BINDING PROTEIN; COLLAGEN BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCAN BINDING PROTEIN A; LANTIBIOTIC; SMB PROTEIN; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33745247155     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28647-0     Document Type: Article

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