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Effects of mutating putative two-component systems on biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans UA159.
FEMS microbiology letters - 18 Dec 2001
Bhagwat S P, Nary J, Burne R A
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus mutans has at least six pairs of open reading frames that are homologous to bacterial two-component regulatory systems. Putative response regulators from five out of six of these pairs were successfully mutated by insertion of a kanamycin resistance marker and the effects of inactivation of the genes on the ability of the cells to form biofilms in an in vitro model were assessed. Disruption of the...
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