A transcriptional regulator and ABC transporters link stress tolerance, (p)ppGpp, and genetic competence in Streptococcus mutans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 862-874

  Seaton, Kinda ^a   Ahn, Sang Joon ^a   Sagstetter, Ann M ^a   Burne, Robert A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MARR FAMILY TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REL COMPETENCE RELATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 79551476731     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01257-10     Document Type: Article

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