Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 385-390 , May 2010

Role of Streptococcus mutans eukaryotic-type serine/threonine protein kinase in interspecies interactions with Streptococcus sanguinis

  • Lin Zhu

      Affiliations

    • College of Dentistry, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
    • ,
  • Jens Kreth

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, BMSB 907, 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 405 271 1202; fax: +1 405 271 3117.

,Accepted 12 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2010.03.012

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 385-390 , May 2010

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