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Characterization of glucan involved in the reduction of dental caries in rats.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 29 Jan 1990
Takada K, Shiota T, Ikeda T
Abstract excerpt
Culture supernatant fluids (SF) of mutant 108 obtained from Streptococcus sobrinus 6715, when incubated with sucrose, produce large amounts of water-soluble glucans. Mainly, two water-soluble glucan synthesizing glucosyltransferases (GTases) were found in culture SF by isoelectric focusing. These two GTases had higher activities than those from the parent strain. The GTase which synthesizes water-insoluble glucan...
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