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A mechanism for extremely weak SpaP-expression in Streptococcus mutans strain Z1

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus mutans surface-protein antigen (SpaP, PAc, or antigen I/II) has been well known to play an important role in initial attachment to tooth surfaces. However, strains with weak SpaP-expression were recently reported to be found in natural populations of S. mutans. The S. mutan...

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Autores principales: Sato, Yutaka, Okamoto-Shibayama, Kazuko, Azuma, Toshifumi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3086597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541094
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jom.v3i0.5495