OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to determine salivary composition Oral squamous cell carcinoma patients. METHODOLOGY: A retrospective conducted over 6 months on data 60 patients obtained from patient records Institute Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Peshawar. Salivary pH, Sodium, Potassium, total proteins were recorded. RESULTS: protein concentration in saliva oral 23.5 mM/L, 96.7mM...

Members of the antigen I/II family of cell surface proteins are highly conserved, multifunctional adhesins that mediate interactions of oral streptococci with other oral bacteria, with cell matrix proteins (e.g., type I collagen), and with salivary glycoproteins, e.g., gp340. The interaction of gp340 (formerly designated salivary agglutinin) with Streptococcus mutans requires an alanine-rich re...

Salivary agglutinin is a high molecular mass component of human saliva that binds Streptococcus mutans, an oral bacterium implicated in dental caries. To study its protein sequence, we isolated the agglutinin from human parotid saliva. After trypsin digestion, a portion was analyzed by matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), which gave the mo...

BACKGROUND The composition of the salivary microbiota has been reported to differentiate between patients with periodontitis, dental caries and orally healthy individuals. To identify characteristics of diseased and healthy saliva we thus wanted to compare saliva metaproteomes from patients with periodontitis and dental caries to healthy individuals. METHODS Stimulated saliva samples were col...

BACKGROUND The competence of the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes (Diptera; Glossinidae) to acquire salivary gland hypertrophy virus (SGHV), to support virus replication and successfully transmit the virus depends on complex interactions between Glossina and SGHV macromolecules. Critical requisites to SGHV transmission are its replication and secretion of mature virions into the fly's salivary gl...

Crystallographic data analyses indicate that  three types of prolinium cations, along with two types of hydrogen  bonding,  produce and stabilize the helical structure of  triprolinium 12-phosphomolybdate. There are similarities between this organic-inorganic compound and peptides/proteins. The stronger “conventional” hydrogen bonds and the less common C-H…O attractions play critical roles in g...

Crystallographic data analyses indicate that  three types of prolinium cations, along with two types of hydrogen  bonding,  produce and stabilize the helical structure of  triprolinium 12-phosphomolybdate. There are similarities between this organic-inorganic compound and peptides/proteins. The stronger “conventional” hydrogen bonds and the less common C-H…O attractions play critical roles in g...