Zinc tolerance through glutathione import strikes a fine balance between protection and damage in Streptococcus mutans
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Recently, our group showed that the dental pathogen Streptococcus mutans is inherently more tolerant to high zinc stress than other streptococci, a phenotype associated with the presence of a P-type ATPase exporter named ZccE, virtually unique to S. mutans. In... ...
