The response regulator ComE in Streptococcus mutans functions both as a transcription activator of mutacin production and repressor of CSP biosynthesis

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1799-1807

  Kreth, Jens ^a,d   Hung, David C I ^b   Merritt, Justin ^a,e   Perry, Julie ^c   Zhu, Lin ^a   Goodman, Steven D ^b   Cvitkovitch, Dennis G ^c   Shi, Wenyuan ^a   Qi, Fengxia ^a,e  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; COMPETENCE STIMULATING PEPTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; MUTACIN; PROTEIN COMC; PROTEIN COME; PROTEIN NLMC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34250710054     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/005975-0     Document Type: Article

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