Acid tolerance mechanisms utilized by Streptococcus mutans

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 403-417

  Matsui, Robert ^a   Cvitkovitch, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acid tolerance; Caries; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CHAPERONIN; CITRIC ACID; GRAMICIDIN; LACTIC ACID; PROTEIN DNAK; RECA PROTEIN;

ACID SECRETION; ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDIFICATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CELL DENSITY; CELL PH; CELL VIABILITY; DENTAL CARIES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 77949392863     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.09.129     Document Type: Review

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