The Streptococcus mutans Cid and Lrg systems modulate virulence traits in response to multiple environmental signals

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3136-3147

  Ahn, Sang Joon ^a   Rice, Kelly C ^b   Oleas, Janneth ^b   Bayles, Kenneth W ^c   Burne, Robert A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CIDAB GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH; IRGAB GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPERON; OXYGEN; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 77957887586     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.039586-0     Document Type: Article

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