Cross‐regulation of competence pheromone production and export in the early control of transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 38 (4) , 867-878
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02187.x
Abstract
Two operons, comAB and comCDE, play a key role in the co‐ordination of spontaneous competence development in cultures of Streptococcus pneumoniae. ComAB is required for export of the comC‐encoded com...Keywords
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