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Abstract

Hydrogen peroxide (HO), an important substance produced by many members of the genus , plays important roles in virulence and antagonism within a microbial community such as oral biofilms. The gene, which encodes pyruvate oxidase, is involved in HO production in many streptococcal species. However, knowledge about its regulation and relation with other genes putatively involved in the same pathway is limited. In this study, three genes – and – were identified as contributing to HO production in by screening mutants for opaque colony appearance. Mutations in all three genes resulted in significant decreases in HO production, with 16–31 % of that of the wild-type. HO production was restored in the complemented strains. Antagonism against by these three mutants was reduced, both on plates and in liquid cultures, indicating the critical roles of these three genes for conferring the competitive advantage of Analysis by qPCR indicated that the expression of was decreased in the and mutants and significantly increased in the mutant.

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