A genome-wide study of two-component signal transduction systems in eight newly sequenced mutans streptococci strains

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Song, Lifu ^a,d   Sudhakar, Padhmanand ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Conrads, Georg ^b   Brock, Anke ^b   Sun, Jibin ^a   Wagner Döbler, Irene ^c   Zeng, An Ping ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Histidine kinase; Mutans streptococci; Response regulator; Signal transduction; Streptococcus mutans; Streptococcus ratti; Streptococcus sobrinus; Two component system

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; FRUCTAN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN RESPONSE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ACID TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS RATTI; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS RATTI; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84859204668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-128     Document Type: Article

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