Expression of the Streptococcus mutans essential two-component regulatory system VicRK is pH and growth-phase dependent and controlled by the LiaFSR three-component regulatory system

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2856-2865

  Tremblay, Yannick D N ^a,b   Lo, Henry ^a   Li, Yung Hua ^a,b   Halperin, Scott A ^a,b   Lee, Song F ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN LIAFSR; PROTEIN VICRKX; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; UPREGULATION;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 69949142861     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.028456-0     Document Type: Article

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