Hamada S., Slade HD (1980). Biology, immunology, and cariogenicity of Streptococcus mutans. Microbiol Rev44:331-384.
2.
Inoue M., Koga T. ( 1979). Fractionation and properties of glucans produced by Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun25:922-931.
3.
Inoue M., Koga T., Sato S., Hamada S. (1982). Synthesis of adherent insoluble glucan by the concerted action of the two glucosyltransferase components of Streptococcus mutans. FEBS Lett143:101-104.
4.
Koga T., Inoue M. (1978). Cellular adherence, glucosyltransferase adsorption, and glucan synthesis of Streptococcus mutans AHT mutants. Infect Immun19:402-410.
5.
Koga T., Inoue M. (1979). Effects of dextranases on cell adherence, glucan-film formation and glucan synthesis by Streptococcus mutans glucosyltransferase . Arch Oral Biol24:191-198.
6.
Koga T., Inoue M. (1981). Inactivation of D-glucosyltransferases from oral Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis by photochemical oxidation . Carbohydr Res93:125-133.
7.
Koga T., Hamada S., Murakawa S., Endo A. ( 1982). Effect of a glucosyltransferase inhibitor on glucan synthesis and cellular adherence of Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun38:882-886.
8.
Koga T., Sato T., Yakushiji T., Inoue M. (1983). Separation of insoluble and soluble glucan-synthesizing glucosyltransferases of Streptococcus mutans OMZ 176 (serotype d). FEMS Microbiol Lett16:127-130.
9.
Koga T., Nishihara T., Fujiwara T., Nisizawa T., Okahashi N., Noguchi T., et al. (1985). Biochemical and immunobiological properties of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Bacteroides gingivalis and comparison with LPS from Escherichia coli. Infect Immun47:638-647.
10.
Koga T., Asakawa H., Okahashi N., Hamada S. (1986). Sucrose-dependent cell adherence and cariogenicity of serotype c Streptococcus mutans. J Gen Microbiol132:2873-2884.
11.
Koga T., Asakawa H., Okahashi N., Takahashi I. (1989). Effect of subculturing on expression of a cell-surface protein antigen by Streptococcus mutans. J Gen Microbiol135:3199-3207.
12.
Koga T., Okahashi N., Takahashi I., Kanamoto T., Asakawa H., Iwaki M. (1990). Surface hydrophobicity, adherence, and aggregation of cell surface protein antigen mutants of Streptococcus mutans serotype c . Infect Immun58:289-296.
13.
Matsushita K., Nisizawa T., Nagaoka S., Kawagoe M., Koga T. ( 1994). Identification of antigenic epitopes in a surface protein antigen of Streptococcus mutans in humans. Infect Immun62:4034-4042.
14.
Nakai M., Okahashi N., Ohta H., Koga T. ( 1993). Saliva-binding region of Streptococcus mutans surface protein antigen. Infect Immun61:4344-4349.
15.
Nakano Y., Yoshida Y., Yamashita Y., Koga T. ( 1998). A gene cluster of 6-deoxy-L-talan synthesis in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Biochim Biophys Acta1442:409-414.
16.
Nishihara T., Koga T., Hamada S. (1988). Production of an interleukin-1 inhibitor by cell line P388D1 murine macrophages stimulated with Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharide. Infect Immun56:2801-2807.
17.
Oho T., Yu H., Yamashita Y., Koga T. ( 1998). Binding of salivary glycoprotein-secretory immunoglobulin A complex to the surface protein antigen of Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun66:115-121.
18.
Okahashi N., Sasakawa C., Yoshikawa M., Hamada S., Koga T. ( 1989). Molecular characterization of a surface protein antigen gene from serotype c Streptococcus mutans, implicated in dental caries. Mol Microbiol3:673-678.
19.
Okahashi N., Sasakawa C., Okada N., Yamada M., Yoshikawa M., Tokuda M., et al. (1990). Construction of a NotI restriction map of the Streptococcus mutans genome. J Gen Microbiol136:2217-2223.
20.
Otsuji N., Sekiguchi M., Iijima T., Takagi Y. (1959). Induction of phage formation in the lysogenic Escherichia coli K-12 by mitomycin C. Nature184:1079-1080.
21.
Shibuya N., Amano K., Azuma J., Nishihara T., Kitamura Y., Noguchi T., et al. (1991). 6-Deoxy-D-talan and 6-deoxy-L-talan. Novel serotype-specific polysaccharide antigens from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans . J Biol Chem266:16318-16323.
22.
Takahashi I., Okahashi N., Matsushita K., Tokuda M., Kanamoto T., Munekata E., et al. (1991). Immunogenicity and protective effect against oral colonization by Streptococcus mutans of synthetic peptides of a streptococcal surface protein antigen. J Immunol146:332-336.
23.
Takahashi I., Matsushita K., Nisizawa T., Okahashi N., Russell MW, Suzuki Y., et al. (1992). Genetic control of immune responses to synthetic peptides of a Streptococcus mutans surface protein antigen. Infect Immun60:623-629.
24.
Tsukioka Y., Yamashita Y., Oho T., Nakano Y., Koga T. ( 1997). Biological function of the dTDP-rhamnose synthesis pathway in Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol179:1126-1134.
25.
Yamaguchi N., Kawasaki M., Yamashita Y., Nakashima K., Koga T. ( 1995). Role of capsular polysaccharide-like serotype-specific antigen in resistance of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Infect Immun63:4589-4594.
26.
Yamashita Y., Tsukioka Y., Nakano Y., Tomihisa K., Oho T., Koga T. ( 1998). Biological functions of UDP-glucose synthesis in Streptococcus mutans. Microbiology144:1235-1245.
27.
Yamashita Y., Tomihisa K., Nakano Y., Shimazaki Y., Oho T., Koga T. ( 1999). Recombination between gtfB and gtfC is required for survival of a dTDP-rhamnose synthesis-deficient mutant of Streptococcus mutans in the presence of sucrose. Infect Immun67:3693-3697.
28.
Yoshida Y., Nakano Y., Yamashita Y., Koga T. ( 1998). Identification of a genetic locus essential for serotype b-specific antigen synthesis in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Infect Immun66:107-114.
29.
Yoshida Y., Nakano Y., Nezu T., Yamashita Y., Koga T. ( 1999). A novel NDP-6-deoxyhexosyl-4-ulose reductase in the pathway for the synthesis of thymidine diphosphate-D-fucose. J Biol Chem274:16933-16939.
30.
Yu H., Nakano Y., Yamashita Y., Oho T., Koga T. ( 1997). Effects of antibodies against cell surface protein antigen PAcglucosyltransferase fusion proteins on glucan synthesis and cell adhesion of Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun65:2292-2298.
