Identification and characterization of an antigen I/II homologous gene, pah, from Streptococcus downei

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 518-523

  Tamura, Haruki ^a   Yamada, Arisa ^a   Kato, Hirohisa ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PAH GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH;

STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 43349101479     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9117-9     Document Type: Article

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