Abstract
Four highly purified salivary glycoproteins were used to study salivary-bacterial interactions. One pair of glycoproteins was mucin-like in composition, whereas the second pair was not. By an agglutination assay, it was found that only the mucin-glycoproteins agglutinated Streptococcus sanguis and S. mutans. Removal of sialic acid from these molecules resulted in a loss of agglutination of S. sanguis but not of S. mutans. The agglutination phenomenon was shown to require a salivary macromolecule of at least 150,000 daltons.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 107-115 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Unknown Journal |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1978 |