Global transcriptional analysis of acid-inducible genes in Streptococcus mutans: Multiple two-component systems involved in acid adaptation

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3322-3332

  Gong, Yongxing ^a   Tian, Xiao Lin ^a   Sutherland, Tara ^a   Sisson, Gary ^a   Mai, Junni ^a,b   Ling, Junqi ^b   Li, Yung Hua ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; UPREGULATION;

ACIDS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 71049140024     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031591-0     Document Type: Article

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