Inhibiting effects of Streptococcus salivarius on competence-stimulating peptide-dependent biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-161

  Tamura, S ^a,b   Yonezawa, H ^a   Motegi, M ^a   Nakao, R ^a   Yoneda, S ^a   Watanabe, H ^a   Yamazaki, T ^b   Senpuku, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell to cell communication; Competence stimulating peptide; GlrA; Oral biofilm; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE STIMULATING PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUORUM SENSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 60349101449     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: 1399302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2008.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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