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Fig. 6 | Microbiome

Fig. 6

From: Human-associated bacteria adopt an unusual route for synthesizing 3-acetylated tetramates for environmental adaptation

Fig. 6

Distribution of the MucF homologues characterized in this study. a The Venn diagram shows the number of mucF homologues containing strains from the human body (blue shade) and the oral cavity (red shade) or with a muc-like BGC (yellow shade). Strains with mucF homologues but without the muc-like BGCs were considered as “smart” bacteria. Oral cavity* represents the oral cavity of humans and two primate animals. b The diagram shows the proportion and number of “smart” bacteria in different species, with some known competitors of S. mutans marked in red font. MucF35 and the other 17 MucF homologous tested for deacylase activity in this work were marked with red dots (from strains containing a muc-like BGC) or circles (from strains without muc-like BGC). Details of each protein are described in Additional file 1, Table S3

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