期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2022; 37 (3)
The acid tolerance of Streptococcus mutans plays an important role in its cariogenic process. Streptococcus mutans initiates a powerful transcriptiona......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2022; 37 (1)
Dental caries is one of the most prevalent and costly biofilm-dependent oral infectious diseases affecting most of the world's population. Streptococc......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2022; 37 (1)
Diadenosine-5 ',5 '''-P1, P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) is a second messenger playing a crucial role in various life activities of bacteria. The increase o......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2022; 37 (1)
Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell communication process that regulates major pathogenic attributes in bacteria including biofilm formation, secret......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2022; 37 (6)
Enterococcus faecalis, a Gram-positive bacterium, is known to be a key player in several chronic infections as well as nosocomial, heart valve, urinar......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2021; 36 (3)
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common head and neck malignant tumor. Periodontitis, a common chronic inflammatory disease, has been p......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2021; 36 (3)
The dysregulation of immune system plays a crucial function in periodontitis development. Pro-inflammatory cytokines are thought to be critical for th......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2021; 36 (5)
Zinc (Zn2+) is an essential divalent trace metal for living cells. Intracellular zinc homeostasis is critical to the survival and virulence of bacteri......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2021; 36 (4)
Background The D-alanylation of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is essential for the physiological metabolism of Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans). This study ......
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Antimicrobial peptides are naturally occurring protein molecules with antibacterial, antiviral and/or antifungal activity. Some antimicrobial peptides......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2020; 35 (6)
Porphyromonas gingivalisexpresses a limited number of two-component systems, including RprY, an orphan response regulator which lacks a cognate sensor......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2020; 35 (6)
Porphyromonas gingivalisis a pathogen closely associated with periodontal and systemic infections. Recently, lysine acetylation (Kac) and lysine succi......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2020; 35 (6)
Fluoride has been used as an effective anticaries agent for more than 70 years, which might result in the emergence of fluoride-resistant strains. How......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2020; 35 (1)
Smokers are more likely than non-smokers to harbour Porphyromonas gingivalis, they are more susceptible to destructive periodontal disease and smokers......
期刊： MOLECULAR ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2020; 35 (2)
Glucosyltransferases (Gtfs), represented by GtfB and GtfC, are important virulence factors of Streptococcus mutans and the major etiologic pathogens o......
