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[Salivary agglutinin] This protein has been identified in human saliva by Ericson and Rundegren (1983) by virtue of its ability to bind to Streptococcus mutans. SAG also binds a number of both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria (Rundegren, 1986), as well as to host proteins including IgA (Rundegren and Arnold, 1987; Ligtenberg et al, 2004), complement factor C1q (Boackle et al, 1993), bovine and human lactoferrin (Mitoma et al, 2001), albumin (Ligtenberg et al, 2004). Prakobphol et al (2000) have reported that SAG binds to Streptococcus mutans and Helicobacter pylori and is identical with GP340.
SAG has been shown to bind and aggregate a broad spectrum of
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