A model of efficiency: Stress tolerance by Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3247-3255

  Lemos, José A ^a   Burne, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHAPERONE; PROTEIN ARGININE DEIMINASE; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTEIN GROEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ACID TOLERANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CATABOLISM; DENTAL CARIES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DENTAL PLAQUE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 57349140742     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/023770-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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