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. 2021 Dec 16;13:45. doi: 10.1038/s41368-021-00149-x

Table 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmid used in this study

Strain or plasmid Description Source of reference
UA159 S. mutans UA159 ATCC 700610
Smu_vicK S. mutans UA159 with in-frame replacement with an erythromycin cassette This study
Smu_vicKr Smu_vicK transformed with pDL278 encoding vicK gene This study
Smu_vicK +  S. mutans UA159 transformed with pDL278 encoding vicK gene This study
pDL278 Escherichia coli-Streptococcus shuttle vector and expression plasmid (spectinomycin) Gifted by Dr. Huichun Dong, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences