Quorum sensing of Streptococcus mutans is activated by Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and by the periodontal microbiome

Table 1 The expression of the SigX regulon of S. mutans in the periodontal community (sample AU_08, AU_09, AU_12, AU_19 from (39)

Locus tag	Mean percentage	Product
SMU_1997	0.23524	SigX, competence inducing alternative sigma-factor
SMU_1914c	0.12851	NlmC, bacteriocin
SMU_1978	0.12642	ComYA, transformasome component
SMU_837	0.05622	putative reductase, competence related
SMU_1915	0.05583	ComC, competence stimulating peptide precursor
SMU_2085	0.05410	RecA, recombination protein
SMU_1904c	0.05354	bacteriocin related
SMU_498	0.05178	ComFA, late competence protein
SMU_2086	0.05098	CinA, competence and damage inducible protein
SMU_1912c	0.03916	bacterocin related
SMU_1001	0.03679	Smf, DNA processing protein, competence related
SMU_1910c	0.03512	hypothetical protein
SMU_1987	0.03450	ATP-binding protein ComYA; late competence gene
SMU_539c	0.03360	signal peptidase type IV
SMU_61	0.03270	putative transcriptional regulator
SMU_836	0.03171	hypothetical protein
SMU_1913c	0.03148	immunity protein, BLpL-like
SMU_423	0.02861	hypothetical protein
SMU_151	0.02800	hypothetical protein
SMU_1895c	0.02739	hypothetical protein
SMU_1896c	0.02192	hypothetical protein
SMU_1917	0.01765	response regulator of the competence regulon, ComE;
SMU_626	0.01635	competence protein
SMU_644	0.01267	competence protein/transcription factor

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