The EIIABMan phosphotransferase system permease regulates carbohydrate catabolite repression in streptococcus gordonii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1957-1965

  Tong, Huichun ^a,b   Zeng, Lin ^a   Burne, Robert A ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM FORMATION; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROL MECHANISM; MODEL SYSTEM; ORAL CAVITY; PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PRIMARY CONTROL; S. MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BIOFILMS; COMPETITION; ENZYMES; GENES; GLUCOSE;

CARBOHYDRATES;

ANTAGONISM; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE; CATABOLISM; DENTAL HEALTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; PATHOGENICITY;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRUCTAN BETA FRUCTOSIDASE; FRUCTAN BETA-FRUCTOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE MANNOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE-MANNOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 79953251969     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02385-10     Document Type: Article

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