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Purification of a High Molecular Mass Protein in Streptococcus mutans
Published on: September 14, 2019
Analysis of an agmatine deiminase gene cluster in Streptococcus mutans UA159
Ann R Griswold1, Yi-Ywan M Chen, Robert A Burne
1Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA.
Journal of Bacteriology
|March 5, 2004
Abstract:
An operon encoding enzymes of the agmatine deiminase system (AgDS) has been identified in the cariogenic bacterium Streptococcus mutans UA159. The AgDS is regulated by agmatine induction and carbohydrate catabolite repression. Ammonia is produced from agmatine at low pH, suggesting that the AgDS could augment acid tolerance.

