Involvement of sensor kinases in the stress tolerance response of Streptococcus mutans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-77

  Biswas, Indranil ^a   Drake, Laura ^a   Erkina, Dasha ^a   Biswas, Saswati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOINFORMATICS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DENTAL CARIES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 37549063380     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00990-07     Document Type: Article

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