%0 Journal Article %T Periodontitis and Inflammation: Plasma High Titer Naturally Occurring Anti-Glucan Antibodies Form Immune Complex with <i>Streptococcus mutans</i> Antigen %A Genu George %A Molly Antony %A Jaisy Mathai %A Padinjaradath S. Appukuttan %J Modern Research in Inflammation %P 45-54 %@ 2169-9690 %D 2016 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/mri.2016.53005 %X Atheromatous plaques usually contain antigens of the periodontitis-causing bacteria Streptococcus mutans though molecular mechanism of this incorporation remains unknown. Since vascular adhesion and inflammatory potential of Immune Complexes (IC) are known we investigated the naturally occurring plasma antibodies that recognize major antigens from S. mutans. S. mutans-binding plasma proteins (SMBP) prepared by affinity chromatography on a column of heat-killed S. mutans could recognize ¦Į- and ¦Ā