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SUBMITTER: Yamashita Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC107649 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamashita Y Y Tsukioka Y Y Tomihisa K K Nakano Y Y Koga T T
Journal of bacteriology 19981101 21
We identified in Streptococcus mutans six new genes (rgpA through rgpF), whose disruption results in a loss of serotype-specific antigenicity, specified by the glucose side chains of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide from the cell wall. Rhamnose and glucose content of the cell wall decreased drastically in all these disruption mutants, except that in the rgpE mutant only the glucose content decreased. RgpC and RgpD are homologous to ATP-binding cassette transporter components and may be involved i ...[more]