Overlapping substrate specificity for sucrose and maltose of two binding protein-dependent sugar uptake systems in Streptococcus mutans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 218-223

  Kilic, Ali O ^a,c   Honeyman, Allen L ^b   Tao, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c Chicago Research Center Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding protein dependent; Maltose; Streptococcus mutans; Sucrose; Transport

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUGAR TRANSPORT; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MALTOSE; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33845659626     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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