Streptococcus mutans glucan-binding protein-A affects Streptococcus gordonii biofilm architecture

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-88

  Banas, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Fountain, Tracey L ^a   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^a   Sun, Keer ^a   Margaret Vickerman, M ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Glucan binding protein; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCAN; GLUCAN BINDING PROTEIN A; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOFILM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARRIER PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUCANS; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; STREPTOCOCCUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33846041613     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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