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Role of a nosX homolog in Streptococcus gordonii in aerobic growth and biofilm formation.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2004
Loo C Y, Mitrakul K, Jaafar S, Gyurko C, Hughes C V, Ganeshkumar N
Abstract excerpt
Oral streptococci such as Streptococcus gordonii are facultative anaerobes that initiate biofilm formation on tooth surfaces. An isolated S. gordonii::Tn917-lac biofilm-defective mutant contained a transposon insertion in an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a homolog of NosX of Ralstonia eutropha, a putative maturation factor of nitrous oxide reductase. Located downstream are two genes, qor1 and qor2, predicted...
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