Increasing competence in the genus Streptococcus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-544

  Håvarstein, Leiv Sigve ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOCIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LACTOBACILLALES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC BACTERIUM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEROPREVALENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHEROMONES; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 77958521767     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07380.x     Document Type: Article

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