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Involvement of an inducible fructose phosphotransferase operon in Streptococcus gordonii biofilm formation.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 2003
Loo C Y, Mitrakul K, Voss I B, Hughes C V, Ganeshkumar N
Abstract excerpt
Oral streptococci, such as Streptococcus gordonii, are the predominant early colonizers that initiate biofilm formation on tooth surfaces. Investigation of an S. gordonii::Tn917-lac biofilm-defective mutant isolated by using an in vitro biofilm formation assay showed that the transposon insertion is near the 3' end of an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a protein homologous to Streptococcus mutans FruK. Three...
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