Comparative analysis of Gtf isozyme production and diversity in isolates of Streptococcus mutans with different biofilm growth phenotypes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4586-4592

  Mattos Graner, Renata O ^a   Napimoga, Marcelo H ^a   Fukushima, Kasuo ^b   Duncan, Margaret J ^c   Smith, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; ZYMOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOENZYMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 5444275604     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.10.4586-4592.2004     Document Type: Article

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