Jonathan Cheng

Mildly Inhibitory Effects of Sodium Polyanethol Sulfonate and pH on the Growth of Wildtype, lrgAB, and cidAB Mutants of Streptococcus mutans

The lrgAB and cidAB operon encodes for anti-holin-like proteins and holin-like proteins respectively, which are mechanisms of control for endolysin activity in S. mutans. The upregulation of lrgAB genes by chitosan is purported to cause increased cell lysis in Streptococcus mutan...