Microfluidic study of competence regulation in Streptococcus mutans: Environmental inputs modulate bimodal and unimodal expression of comX

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-272

  Son, Minjun ^a   Ahn, Sang Joon ^b   Guo, Qiang ^b   Burne, Robert A ^b   Hagen, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPETENCE STIMULATING PROTEIN; PROTEIN COMS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIP PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERNALIZATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROFLUIDICS; PEPTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84867484301     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08187.x     Document Type: Article

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