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TABLE 2.

Intracellular levels of guanine nucleotides during growth of S. mutans in SMM–1% glucose at 37°C

S. mutans strain and growth phase	pmol/A₆₀₀ unit^a
S. mutans strain and growth phase	GDP	GTP	ppGpp	pppGpp
GS5(gtfB)::pSIV2
Mid-log	0	250 ± 22	131 ± 9	0
Early stationary	0	749 ± 21	7 ± 0.43	0
GS5(gtfB)::pSIV2-SGPAN
Mid-log	505 ± 26	246 ± 10	90.5 ± 4	39.5 ± 2
Early stationary	1,509 ± 82	865 ± 35	40 ± 1.0	0

Means and standard deviations from duplicate experiments.