Transport of Sugars, Including Sucrose, by the msm Transport System of Streptococcus mutans

Role of Streptococcus mutans in human dental decay

1986 • 2,935 citations

A binding protein-dependent transport system in Streptococcus mutans responsible for multiple sugar metabolism.

1992 • 240 citations

The Phosphoenolpyruvate:Sugar Phosphotransferase System in Gram-Positive Bacteria: Properties, Mechanism, and Regulation

1988 • 190 citations

Energy coupling in bacterial periplasmic permeases

1990 • 91 citations

Sucrose transport by Streptococcus mutans. Evidence for multiple transport systems

1982 • 49 citations

Streptococcus mutans gtfA gene specifies sucrose phosphorylase

1988 • 48 citations

MsmE, a lipoprotein involved in sugar transport in Streptococcus mutans

1993 • 45 citations

Evidence that glucose and sucrose uptake in oral streptococcal bacteria involves independent phosphotransferase and proton-motive force-mediated mechanisms

1984 • 44 citations

Purification ofStreptococcus mutansglucosyltransferase by polyethylene glycol precipitation

1979 • 33 citations

Cloning and expression of the multiple sugar metabolism (msm) operon of Streptococcus mutans in heterologous streptococcal hosts

1993 • 31 citations

Evidence that a low-affinity sucrose phosphotransferase activity in Streptococcus mutans GS-5 is a high-affinity trehalose uptake system

1990 • 28 citations

Repeated DNA sequence involved in mutations affecting transport of sucrose into Streptococcus mutans V403 via the phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system

1991 • 26 citations

Carbohydrate uptake in the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans: mechanisms and regulation by protein phosphorylation

1989 • 20 citations

Testing models for transport systems dependent on periplasmic binding proteins

1992 • 3 citations