Purification and functional studies of a potent modified quorum-sensing peptide and a two-peptide bacteriocin in Streptococcus mutans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1322-1334

  Petersen, Fernanda Cristina ^a   Fimland, Gunnar ^a   Scheie, Anne Aamdal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMD GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMBA GENE; SMBB GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33747034144     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05312.x     Document Type: Article

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