Abstract
The growth response of Streptococcus mutans representing antigenic type a or d in a chemically defined medium was influenced by the oxygen concentration of the growth atmosphere. Under controlled aerobic (1.5% O2) conditions these cultures attained a greater density than when the atmosphere contained 0.006% O2 or less. The growth of S. mutans strains representing antigenic types b or c in the defined medium was independent of the oxygen concentration of the growth environment. Under the conditions used in this study, none of the strains tested could utilize ammonium ion as a sole source of nitrogen for growth. The requirement for certain amino acids and inhibition by other amino acids varied with antigenic type and relative oxygen concentration of the growth environment. Under conditions where the atmospheric oxygen was reduced to 0.0006% O2 or less, the amino acid requirements of the cultures became either more numerous or more stringent. S. mutans strains of type c generally required the least number of amino acids, whereas cultures of type d had more numerous requirements. Nearly every culture tested under the anaerobic atmosphere was inhibited by one of the branched-chain amino acids, leucine, valine, or isoleucine. Methionine and lysine were also found to be inhibitory, particularly toward the type c strains.
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