Differential expression of the Smb bacteriocin in Streptococcus mutans isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2742-2749

  Yonezawa, Hideo ^a   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^b   Nakayama, Shu Ichi ^a   Mitobe, Jiro ^a   Motegi, Mizuho ^a   Nakao, Ryoma ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Senpuku, Hidenobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; SMB BACTERIOCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMBA GENE; SMBB GENE; START CODON; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 48749108471     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00235-08     Document Type: Article

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